Stuart Chase Quotes
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.
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There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
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To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.
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Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.
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It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
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Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.
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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
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I studied law, so perhaps I might have made it to the Bar, though I gave up that idea when I suspected playing a barrister was probably much more fun than being one.
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I want to constantly be surprising people with different roles.
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Most people who haven't been trained in physics probably think of what physicists do as a question of incredibly complicated calculations, but that's not really the essence of it. The essence of it is that physics is about concepts, wanting to understand the concepts, the principles by which the world works.
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People don't believe they've experienced the event unless they've taken a photograph.
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The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.
