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It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
Baron de Montesquieu
It is essential, by the very essence of things, that authority should be a counterweight to authority.
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Parents test our patience more than anyone else...Being around them keeps you in check...that's what keeps you humbled.
Nouman Ali Khan
'Our progenitors are a consistent trial...Being in their presence keeps us reflective...It's what grounds us.'
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Power must never be trusted without a check.
John Adams
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Everything that originates from God will endure the test of time. Therefore, it is good to check out the origins of everything to make sure they were started by God.
Eric Ludy
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It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.
Erle Stanley Gardner
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Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.
John Mayall
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You better check your lipstick before you come and talk to me.
Naomi Campbell
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When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.
Mary J. Blige
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Not a mark on it. (Joe) Yeah. Wanna check the backseat, where Steele is sitting? I’ll bet there’s a big stain there. (Tee)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.
Richard Pryor
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When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?
Chetan Bhagat
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Follow your heart, but check it with your head.
Steve Jobs
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Obama cool, but he ain't sending me no free checks
Big K.R.I.T.
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A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.
Learned Hand
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I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.
Cole Porter
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt Disney
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If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.
Dan Quayle
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Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check.
Frank Zappa
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I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance
Paul Newman
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when the boogie man goes to sleep he checks his closet for me
Chuck Norris
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I pay these niggas with a reality check.
Lil Wayne
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If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.
Jimmy Iovine
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SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and never check out!
Ken Thompson
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Success is when the checks don’t bounce.
Andy Warhol
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We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'
Sandy Smith
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My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.
David Platt
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If you find your feet dragging, check your path. You are probably on the wrong one.
Philip Toshio Sudo
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Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.
Victoria Moran
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Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.
Peter Drucker
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My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.
Rodney Dangerfield
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Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?
Neil Rackham
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If you're going to talk about me behind my back, at least check out my great ass.
Carole Radziwill
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When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises
Nathaniel Branden
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If I were a gynecologist, I'd say things like, Okay, enough of the small talk. Let's check under the hood.
Dov Davidoff
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I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.
M. C. Escher
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If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.
Stephen King
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There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself.
Jill Scott
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If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.
Robert Metcalfe
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Even someone as lowly as an assistant U.S. attorney has to undergo a background check, and you're asked a series of very invasive questions, and you're expected to tell the truth and they're under penalty of perjury. And you're asked those questions so you can't be blackmailed or extorted.
Trey Gowdy
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Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
Marcus Aurelius
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
Jack Vance
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There is no use getting angry at something that has already happened.All you can do is your best to check it doesn't happen again.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.
Iggy Pop
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Prince Kai! Check my fan, I think I'm overheating.
Marissa Meyer