Livy Quotes
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
Quotes to Explore
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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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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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
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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.
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Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.
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There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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One with the law is a majority.
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We believe that personal independence and equal human rights can never be forfeited, except for crime; that marriage should be an equal and permanent partnership, and so recognized by law; that until it is so recognized, married partners should provide against the radical injustice of present laws, by every means in their power...
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I do have an obligation to make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there.
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A 2014 study commissioned by Facebook and done by Deloitte suggests that Facebook alone contributes almost $150 billion directly to the global economy, and when you add the peripherals, it nears $227 billion.
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We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.
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I've always been attracted to more than just the way a woman looks and the way she's shaped.
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No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
