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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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.
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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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If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
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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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The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice — that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
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I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.
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It's important that the art forms communicate, whether it's the dance program with the jazz program or the classical program with the opera program, that these conversations becomes fluid.
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The violation of some laws is a normal part of the behavior of every citizen.
