Augustin-Louis Cauchy Quotes
Very often the laws derived by physicists from a large number of observations are not rigorous, but approximate.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
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Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.
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It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.
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Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.
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Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.
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The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.
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The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.
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Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
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Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.
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If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
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There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
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Very often the laws derived by physicists from a large number of observations are not rigorous, but approximate.
