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There must be a lot of duplication in our country’s laws," said Dukhi. "Every time there are electio...

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I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to g...

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Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the strai...

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Our lives are made up of many things, not just one. Many answers, not just one. It's men that want o...

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If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed...

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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never ...

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Terry PratchettThe Science of Discworld II: The Globe

I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think m...

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There are rules and laws to help ensure our physical safety. Likewise, the Lord has provided guideli...

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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to ...

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Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistic...

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Tom RobbinsEven Cowgirls Get the Blues

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and reli...

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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not...

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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit...

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Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.

That's the law, son. But you were never much of a one for following the law.

Generations of Humeans have… been misled into offering analyses of causation and of natural law that...

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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how m...

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But what was there to say?Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted toget...

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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have...

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For in the end laws are just words on a page - words that are sometimes malleable, opaque, as depend...

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Barack ObamaThe Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or so...

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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not wa...

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Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environm...

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There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain...

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Carl SaganPale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken.Infal...

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Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent...

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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues...

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It has often been suggested to me that the Constitution of the United States is a sufficient safegua...

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On coming to America I had the same hopes as have most European immigrants and the same disillusionm...

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The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to addre...

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As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy withwhich we all begin as chi...

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George Bernard ShawThe Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen ma...

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Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever pla...

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The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man wh...

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Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey th...

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Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator...

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Henry David ThoreauCivil Disobedience and Other Essays

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve ...

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They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the...

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The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whethe...

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[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehende...

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The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of ...

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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the la...

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Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. A...

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Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion...

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Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature.

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

Once the state starts providing, it feels free to hand out the rules, too!" Larch blurted hastily. ....

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The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not h...

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Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams an...

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You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by...

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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaiti...

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The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral fo...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impuni...

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Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that ...

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The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often ...

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Max WeberFrom Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soi...

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Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after fort...

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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times...

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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Society had more and more rules, and laws that contradicted the rules, and new rules that contradict...

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good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...

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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...

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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.