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resort
«If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end of our dreams»
Author: Archie Lee Moore
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bloodshed, lawlessness, resort, resort to, The Civil War, untold
«Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.»
«All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.»
«Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
last resort, reduce, resort, The Last Resort
«In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.»
«It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Being a Woman
| Keywords:
Catholic, chemistry, forbidden, lawful, physics, pregnancies, pregnancy, resort, resort to
«If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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brick, brick in, extreme, Extreme Measures, hit, intentional, measures, offending, offends, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to, The Brick, To the Extreme
«In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Authority,
Law and lawyers,
Truth
| Keywords:
accepted, divine law, good authority, in truth, lawgiver, remarkable, resort, resorted, resorting, resort to
«Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
consistency, last resort, resort, The Last Resort, unimaginative