Famous quotes containing the words exact, hitting and/or set:
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.”
—Edmund Burke (17291797)
“I feel all dead inside. Im backed up in a dark corner and I dont know whos hitting me!”
—Jay Dratler, U.S. screenwriter, Bernard Schoenfeld, and Henry Hathaway. Bradford Galt (Mark Stevens)
“Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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