Law Quotes
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I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for Justice O'Connor the next year.
James Forman, Jr.
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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.
Livy
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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
William Graham Sumner
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There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
Francis Bacon
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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
John Paul Jones
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It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
Douglas Hofstadter
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Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
John Carmack
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It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours.
Janet Reno
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But we have never stopped it war and never shall, because war is not the law of one age or civilization, but of eternal nature itself, out of which every civilization proceedes, and into which it must sink again if it is not hard enough to withstand its iron ordeal.
Ernst Junger
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Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished.
James T. Walsh
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I've made it very clear what I believe in -- a sense of family, community, respect for the law, Britain controlling its own direction.
Liam Fox
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If love wasn't the law of life, life would not have persisted in the midst of death.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow– priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.
Peter Lamborn Wilson
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I've just had some bad news. Tomorrow is the mother in law's funeral. And she's cancelled it.
Les Dawson
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Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.
Ivan Turgenev
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Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.
Erwin Griswold
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One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.
Alex Cox
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I suggest to you tonight that if George Bush had selected the Supreme court in '54, Clarence Thomas would have never got to law school.
Al Sharpton
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We run everything to ground. If you see something, say something. Report your concerns to law enforcement. They will be looked at, they will be reviewed.
Barack Obama
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I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A.
Ashley Greene
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I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.
Lauren Willig
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Not only the financial power, but also the legal power, has remained seated in Britain. The Washington Post commented on June 18, 1983 that after the American Revolution, all the old laws remained in effect in the new United States: Some of these laws of "English common law" dated back to 1278, long before America was discovered.
Eustace Mullins
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With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
G. I. Gurdjieff