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(on refusing the role of Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967), the role that made Dustin Hoffman a star seven years before Redford obtained super-star status himself) I never did look like a 21-year-old just out of college who`d never been laid.

- Robert Redford

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

I was given materials that show, for want of a better word, `kiddy porn,` but they also show they were obtained, in part, by the mother and with her name on them as the person who called these up from the computer. Now I don`t know how they got on the computer, but my client has adamantly denied some of these materials, and the other materials I just won`t bring to your attention.

- Owen Williams

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

- Thomas Arnold

The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

- James Newman

In recent years, we have obtained unprecedented access to U.S. intelligence and tactical planning,

- Robert Hill

Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant.

- Richard Morris

Based on research data obtained through July, we foresee one of the most active hurricane seasons on record.

- William Gray

The situation is quite grim. With the money we have already, and much of it obtained from our own internal emergency reserves, we can keep the helicopters running for one week.

- Michael Jones

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

- John Moody

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

- Floyd Abrams

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.

- A. Townsend Peterson

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

- Ahmedou Ould Haye

Nature seems to have taken every precaution that these, her choicest treasures, may not lose value by being too easily obtained.

- AJ Nicholson

It is to be feared that those who emigrate to New South Wales, generally anticipate too great facility in their future operations and certainty of success in conducting them; but they should recollect that competency cannot be obtained without labour.

- Alan Grieve

As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.

- Alan Rodger

Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.

- Alan Seeger

It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.

- Alan Skrainka

During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.

- Alan Skrainka

If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.

- Alan Skrainka

Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.

- Alda Piliszek

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

- Alex Attwood

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

- Alexander Henry

The ground for the factory having been chosen, and a long lease of the premises obtained, I had next to plan the necessary buildings.

- Alexander Rahr

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

- Allan Ross

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

- Allie Zazzali

Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.

- Amanda Bird

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

- Andre Bauer

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

- Andre Bishop

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

- Andrew Kaplan

Today the South is faced with fresh assaults upon its regime and its order of values. All the while it has known that what grudging respect it has obtained from the North has come because the South has maintained the standards of white civilization. It knows that if it were to accept without reservation the dictates of the Supreme Court, it might be turned into something like those `mixed sections` found in large Northern cities.

- Ann Donovan

ICraveTV.com isn`t playing by the rules, ... They have neither sought nor obtained permission to use our signals.

- Atish Kala

ICraveTV.com isn`t playing by the rules. They have neither sought nor obtained permission to use our signals.

- Atish Kala

When a defendant makes a request for a lawyer, all questioning must stop until a lawyer is on the scene. The fact that Shaw made two requests for a lawyer and was questioned for twenty minutes indicates a violation of his rights, assuming that is what really happened. My understanding is that Miranda does not legitimize a confession obtained by questioning a defendant who has repeatedly asked for a lawyer.

- Atsushi Mizuno

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person`s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained

- C.S. Lewis

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

- Tom Stoppard

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy