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  • I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since. -- Winston Churchill
  • Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. -- Carl Jung
  • The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. -- Felix Frankfurter
  • Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. -- James Russell Lowell
  • I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. -- Calvin Coolidge
  • The American pledge not to negotiate with terrorists has been honored more in the breach than the observance from the moment President Ronald Reagan made it. -- Alex Berenson
  • Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions. -- Brandon Boyd
  • I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake. -- Brian Ferneyhough
  • The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. -- Denis Diderot
  • Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it. -- Curtis Mayfield
  • We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
  • Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year. -- Mara Liasson
  • To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat. -- George Crabbe
  • Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance of traditional Jewish law - to make it possible to follow all 613 biblical commandments assiduously while still participating in the reality of the modern world. -- Noah Feldman
  • Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance. -- William Shakespeare
  • An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony. -- Alfred Edersheim
  • There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality. -- Joseph Addison
  • Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline. -- George F. Kennan
  • These are only hints an guesses... the rest is prayer, observance, discipline, thought, and action. -- T. S. Eliot
  • There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas. -- Henry Van Dyke
  • It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation. -- Calvin Coolidge
  • Tragic experience indicates that the most sacred obligations are utterly disregarded when their observance means losing the war. -- Kirby Page
  • Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. -- Roger Babson
  • What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue. -- John Marshall
  • No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged. -- Arthur Balfour
  • Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles. -- Sissela Bok
  • Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance. -- William Shakespeare
  • It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values. -- Sathya Sai Baba
  • It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three dying maple leaves on it. -- Charlotte Whitton
  • The observance of one commandment, however clearly and forcibly enjoined, cannot make up for the neglect of another which is enjoined with equal clearness and equal force. -- William Wilberforce
  • Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of genuine humanity in a person. -- Thomas Keneally
  • I attribute my whole success in life to a rigid observance of the fundamental rule - Never have yourself tattooed with any woman's name, not even her initials. -- P. G. Wodehouse
  • Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny. -- John F. Kennedy
  • It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built. -- Major Taylor
  • In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • I dont see lines of force as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake. -- Brian Ferneyhough
  • Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude. -- Lord Chesterfield
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  • Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
  • It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance -- William Shakespeare
  • We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war." -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
  • DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . . deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life. -- Ambrose Bierce
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