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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

– H. L. MenckenRate it:

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.

– Henry ClayRate it:

The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.

– BhartrihariRate it:

There are some who say that Time is itself a hammer; that each slow second marks another tap that makes big rocks into little rocks, waterfalls into canyons, cliffs into beaches. There are some who say that Time is instead a blade. They see the dance of its razored tip, poised like a venomous snake, forever ready to slay faster than the eye can see. And there are some who say that Time is both hammer and blade. They say the hammer is a sculptor's mallet, and the blade is a sculptor's chisel: that each stroke is a refinement, a perfecting, a discovery of truth and beauty within what would otherwise be blank and lifeless stone. And I name this saying wisdom.

– Matthew StoverRate it:

Your life per se is a journey and like every other journey it will surely end someday, sometime, somewhere and somehow. So come on, engage yourself in doing only the things that can outlive you and speak for you globally or perpetually after your demise. Listen up, you can succeed in leaving behind an indelible mark here (on earth). As a matter of fact, many mortals like you have already succeeded in leaving behind their indelible marks here (on earth) by living for others and by enriching or touching numerous lives e.g. Mother Theresa, Maya Angelou, Henry Ford, Pat Robertson, Myles Munroe, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Uma Ukpai, Og Mandino, Les Brown, Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jnr., Mahatma Gandhi, Bill Gates, Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation, Warren Buffett, William Shakespeare, Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Zig Ziglar, Mark Zuckerberg, John Dewey, Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Foundation, George Soros, John D. Rockefeller Snr., John D. Rockefeller Jnr., Rockefeller Family, Rockefeller Foundation, Sudha Murthy, J.R.D Tata, J.N Tata, Tata Family, Tata Group, Tata Motors, RVM, RVM foundation, Aliko Dangote, Dangote Foundation, Dangote Group, MTN Foundation, MTN Group, Robert F. Smith, Rochas Okorocha, Rochas Okorocha Foundation, Sir Emeka Ofor, Sir Emeka Ofor Foundation, Ifeanyi Ubah, Ifeanyi Ubah Foundation, among others. ~Emeasoba George

– EMEASOBA GEORGERate it:

Christian freedom is found in relationship to Christ himself, not in autonomy or individual independence. Identifying the sources of enslavement today is part of the discernment of spirits which marks our quest for holiness.

– Francis Cardinal George, OMIRate it:

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

X Marks the spot

– PersonRate it:

Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to "get by."

– Author UnknownRate it:

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

– Arthur MillerRate it:

A movie does not become hit with its box office collection but when it could sit with indelibly marks in the heart of even a few sensible persons.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

And today marks the potentially momentous meeting between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore.

– Shannon RivkinRate it:

Apple got top marks, providing significantly better service than all other computer manufacturers.

– Adam TroyRate it:

At the moment several premises are being searched, this step marks a major blow against the extreme left in Germany.

– Thomas StroblRate it:

Australia can't hide from this, it will need to respectfully protect its citizens, this detention marks the new normal in the bilateral tension, which will be constant low-level tension.

– Rory MedcalfRate it:

By looking for marks related to growth, damage, wear and disease we can create an image of how these individuals lived and died.

– Alfred HawkinsRate it:

Corporate spreads have overreacted, the Fed will remain an overhang, but as far as the supply worry, the market has got to score high marks for its ability to absorb the amount it has over the past few days.

– Tom MurphyRate it:

Cyclone Kenneth marks the first time two cyclones have made landfall in Mozambique during the same season, further stressing the government's limited resources.

– Mark LowcockRate it:

Despite 5 billion euros underwater, St. Marks Square certainly wouldnt be secure.

– Luca ZaiaRate it:

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

– Thomas HardyRate it:

Eight of our top 13 warmest days on record are this year, we didn't just get a little bit past the old marks, we really blasted past them.

– Spencer GlacierRate it:

Every marathon race starts with one step forward. Moreover, a single letter or word marks or begins an article or a book. Even the journey of a thousand mile begins with a step. That is to say, you have to begin from somewhere in order to get to anywhere. Thus, dare to start something new. For, you will gradually and eventually grow big or rather succeed. -Emeasoba George

– Emeasoba GeorgeRate it:

For Apple's own business, it marks the strategic shift away from a central hardware focus to a business in which subscription content and services are increasingly important for margin and revenues.

– Jack KentRate it:

For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game.

– Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)Rate it:

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