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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

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• Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Students
  • Laws
  • Impact

• Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Eye
  • Friendship
  • Texas

• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Me
  • Try
  • Escape

• We want laws to be applied predictably.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Want
  • Laws
  • Applied

• To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Game
  • Company
  • Escape

• I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Broken
  • Laws
  • United States

• Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Child
  • Laws
  • Guns

• I write to escape; to escape poverty.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Poverty
  • Write
  • Escape

• The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Stage
  • Laws
  • Both

• Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Books
  • Laws
  • Behavior

• When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Escape

• In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • House
  • Laws
  • Obey

• Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Will
  • Laws

• A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • May
  • Bad
  • Laws

• Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Nature
  • Period
  • Laws

• I think in the industry we're in and the type of audience we have, we're never going to escape the idea of being young. Which I don't mind myself. I mean, who wants to grow up anyway? I don't want to grow up.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Audience

• I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Escape
  • Episodes
  • Mayberry

• I think he genuinely meant it. I think he really wants to do the right things to escape this demon that's got him.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Escape
  • Demon

• The laws of relativity are clear on this point. If you could move at the speed of light, you would see all of space shrink to a single point, and all of time collapse to an instant. In the reference frame of light, there is no space and time.

  

  Bernard Haisch
  • Laws
  • Collapse
  • Reference

• Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

  

  Michel de Montaigne
  • Forget
  • Memory
  • Fix

• I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Study
  • Stress
  • Year

• An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Action
  • Secret
  • Development

• Xs were used because there was no mass literacy - a state we are rapidly approaching once more.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Literacy

• Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

  

  Solon
  • Laws
  • Escape
  • Spiders