Law Quotes
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I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.
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You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.
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The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.
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The more nearly the film cutter approaches the natural law of interest, the more invisible will be his cutting. If the camera moves from one person to another at the exact moment that you in the legitimate theatre would have turned your head, you will not be conscious of a cut.
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I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
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English banjo players really were a law unto themselves - you don't find that kind of brisk banjo playing on the original Louis Armstrong or Bix Beiderbecke records.
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What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbor. This is the whole law; the rest is commentary. Go and study.
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Habit is the deepest law of human nature.
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People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.
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A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
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I prefer law to war under all circumstances.
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There are two laws discrete Not reconciled, Law for man, and law for thing.
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The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.
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At some point, Moore's law will break down.
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Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.
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The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.
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No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.
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Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.
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When law can do no right, Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong.
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Public opinion's always in advance of the law.
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The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.
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I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
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The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.
