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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Law

• Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Man
  • Law
  • Exist

• I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Style

• I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.

  

  Iman
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Universe

• The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Society
  • Law
  • Back

• The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Life
  • Mind
  • King

• Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Law
  • Sorry
  • Consequences

• I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • College
  • Fighting
  • Child

• We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Law
  • King
  • Same

• I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Law

• There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Law
  • Very

• When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was around 13 when I started, and I learned a lot by looking and listening. I learned how to be a bandleader from watching that band work.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Work
  • Father
  • Band

• The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Law
  • Religious
  • Difference

• I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Different
  • Family
  • Father

• I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • World
  • Understanding

• In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.'

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Law
  • Constitution

• Grant us the single heart once more That mocks no sacred thing, The Sword of Truth our fathers wore When Thou wast Lord and King. Let darkness unto darkness tell Our deep unspoken prayer; For, while our souls in darkness dwell, We know that Thou art there.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Truth

• As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Trying
  • King
  • Investment

• To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• I'm very happy, and I try to answer the encouragement I receive on social media through my efforts on the field, for everyone from the fans who buy a shirt to those who encourage us inside the stadium.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Happy

• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • People
  • Children
  • Age

• Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.

  

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