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I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others. ↗

— Barry White

#aspects #caring #dealing #different #different aspects

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny. ↗

— Bryan White

#dress #funny #her #i #joke

You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#else #go #hear #know #like

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed. ↗

— Byron White

#busy #choices #clause #constantly #courts

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law. ↗

— Byron White

#death #death penalty #defendant #deprive #entitled

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision. ↗

— Byron White

#decision #every #every time #explains #government

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. ↗

— E. B. White

#about #age #because #been #i

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. ↗

— E. B. White

#among #countries #disagreement #likely #more

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. ↗

— E. B. White

#beyond #bury #child #deep #happy

I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#forgiveness