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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.


Ambrose Bierce


#days #fact #festival #god #having

Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.


Jo Bonner


#arrested #attacks #been #convicted #department

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.


Pat Boone


#high #high school #i #may #school

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.


Constantin Brancusi


#body #eyes #fins #fish #flash

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.


Warren E. Burger


#certain #consequences #deterrent #effect #factor

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested.


Howie Carr


#back #basically #edgar #fbi #find

I was arrested three times and tortured once.


Paulo Coelho


#i #once #three #times #tortured

Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.


Dick Thornburgh


#been #borders #century #convergence #customs

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I'd really heard about polygamists.


Jeanne Tripplehorn


#abuse #anymore #arrests #child #child abuse

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.


Evelyn Waugh


#bad #books #course #craving #duty






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