J. William Fulbright Quotes

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

J. William Fulbright

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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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• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

  

  Sam Waterston
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• It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization.

  

  Randall Terry
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• I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

  

  Wendy E. Long
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• But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

  

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

  

  Fatema Mernissi
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• I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.

  

  Pat Nixon
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• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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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.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  

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• Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

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• The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

  

  Barry Commoner
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• One with the law is a majority.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
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• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

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• The FBI has built up substantial expertise to address cyber threats, both in the homeland and overseas. Here at home, the FBI serves as the executive agent for the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF), which joins together 19 intelligence, law enforcement, and military agencies to coordinate cyber threat investigations.

  

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• The guy that I worked on 'Thriller ' was a genius and he was 20 years old, but it was like working with a gifted 10-year-old. The guy who I worked on with 'Black Or White' was crazy. Michael had gone mad.

  

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• All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.

  

  Ian Smith
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• Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

  

  Maya Angelou
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• In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.

  

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• Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Law
  • Behavior
  • Legal