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Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.
Author:
Clara Zetkin
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According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.
Author:
Pieter Zeeman
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In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
Author:
John Yoo
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Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
Author:
John Yoo
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While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
Author:
John Yoo
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
Author:
Xenophon
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The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.
Author:
Eugene Wigner
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.
Author:
Byron White
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Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
Author:
William Wharton
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Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
Author:
Edward Weston
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Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.
Author:
Edward Weston
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Author:
Mae West
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Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.
Author:
Allen West
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Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.
Author:
Allen West
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
Author:
Orson Welles
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There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.
Author:
Robert Welch
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
Author:
Adam Weishaupt
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Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
Author:
Allen Weinstein
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More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.
Author:
Anthony Weiner
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There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
Author:
Simone Weil
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What is crucial is there be laws.
Author:
Andre Weil
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The laws of this world are for children.
Author:
Frank Wedekind
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Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
Author:
George Washington
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We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
Author:
Rick Warren
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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
Author:
Alfred Wallace
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Author:
Voltaire
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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Author:
Voltaire
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Nature never breaks her own laws.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Author:
Jules Verne
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There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege.
Author:
Jesse Ventura
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Author:
Mark Twain
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In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
Author:
Ivan Turgenev
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The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
Author:
Edward Tufte
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My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
Author:
Edward Tufte
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That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.
Author:
Edward Tufte
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Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.
Author:
Lyman Trumbull
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The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.
Author:
Robert Trout
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
Author:
James Thurber
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Author:
Cal Thomas
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I am not a promoter of more laws, just better ones.
Author:
Lee Terry
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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
Author:
William Taft
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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Author:
Tacitus
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Author:
Tacitus
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Author:
Tacitus
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He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
Author:
James Sylvester
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Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.
Author:
Algernon Sydney
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Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.
Author:
Thomas Sydenham
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.
Author:
Helen Suzman
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Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
Author:
John Sununu
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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
Author:
William Sumner
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Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
Author:
Larry Summers
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
Author:
James Stockdale
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Laws are never as effective as habits.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
Author:
Jack Steinberger
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You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.
Author:
Michael Steele
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It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply.
Author:
Howard Staunton
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.
Author:
Konstantin Stanislavisky
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Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
Author:
Leland Stanford
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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
Author:
Baldwin Spencer
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You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the usual laws of nature; that there was no other group so handsome, so engaged.
Author:
Charles Spalding
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Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
Author:
George Soros
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
Author:
Sophocles
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They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.
Author:
Lorenzo Snow
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The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.
Author:
James Smithson
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
Author:
L. Smith
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The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
Author:
Huston Smith
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To be taken into account were some years of schooling, where I studied with diligence Neptune's laws, and these laws I tried to obey when I sailed overseas; it was worth the while.
Author:
Joshua Slocum
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If ever we had proof that our nation's pollution laws aren't working, it's reading the list of industrial chemicals in the bodies of babies who have not yet lived outside the womb.
Author:
Louise Slaughter
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If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
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Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.
Author:
Swami Sivananda
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Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
Author:
Gordon Sinclair
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It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.
Author:
Bill Shuster
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If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.
Author:
Mark Shields
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Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
Author:
William Shenstone
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It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison.
Author:
Cindy Sheehan
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Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.
Author:
Jonathan Shapiro
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Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws.
Author:
John Shadegg
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We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.
Author:
Jose Serrano
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Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.
Author:
Leah Sears
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Based on the laws of physics, the effect on temperature of man's contribution to atmospheric CO2 levels is minuscule and indiscernible from the natural variability caused in large part by changes in solar energy output.
Author:
Robert Scotto
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Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.
Author:
Luke Scott
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The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
Author:
Otto Schily
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Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
Author:
George Savile
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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
Author:
George Savile
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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
Author:
Ferdinand Saussure
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Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
Author:
Walter Salles
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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
Author:
Dora Russell
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Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
Author:
Ja Rule
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Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Author:
Warren Rue
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Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
Author:
Mayer Rothschild
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Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws.
Author:
Mayer Rothschild
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The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users.
Author:
Hilary Rosen
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In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
Author:
Pat Robertson
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The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
Author:
J. Roberts
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Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.
Author:
Terry Riley
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The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.
Author:
Jeremy Rifkin
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
Author:
Thomas Reid
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It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.
Author:
John Reagan
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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
Author:
Herbert Read
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The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.
Author:
Dixie Ray
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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Author:
Ayn Rand
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Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.
Author:
Jim Ramstad
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I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.
Author:
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.
Author:
Dan Quayle
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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
Author:
Pythagoras
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
Author:
Orson Pratt
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
Author:
Orson Pratt
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
Author:
Alexander Pope
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No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.
Author:
Michael Polanyi
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If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
Author:
Henri Poincare
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If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
Author:
Henri Poincare
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
Author:
Titus Plautus
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Author:
Plato
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We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
Author:
Max Planck
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The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
Author:
Jean Piaget
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
Author:
Edith Piaf
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Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
Author:
Elizabeth Phelps
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Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Author:
Robert Peel
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If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced.
Author:
Russell Pearce
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Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.
Author:
Cynthia Payne
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You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws.
Author:
Ron Paul
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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
Author:
Jean Paul
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As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.
Author:
Isabel Paterson
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We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.
Author:
George Pataki
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Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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We know that this man has a proven record of being a 'strict constructionist.' Our President has given us his word that he will interpret the Constitution rather than make new laws from the bench.
Author:
Rod Parsley
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Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.
Author:
Gilbert Parker
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I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.
Author:
Anne Parillaud
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He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.
Author:
Daniel Palmer
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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
Author:
Major Owens
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
Author:
Ouida
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
Author:
Barbara Olson
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We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.
Author:
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
Author:
Joyce Oates
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In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
Author:
Bob Ney
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There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.
Author:
John Newman
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For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
Author:
Nursultan Nazarbayev
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But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.
Author:
Janet Napolitano
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Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of the laws which govern their actions. Inorganic substances are the objects of other sciences, - physics and chemistry.
Author:
Johannes Muller
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I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
Author:
John Mortimer
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Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
Author:
John Morley
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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
Author:
Samuel Morison
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We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
Author:
Paul More
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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
Author:
Alberto Moravia
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The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.
Author:
Joe Moore
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Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.
Author:
Joe Moore
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All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects.
Author:
George Moore
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Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand.
Author:
John Moody
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
Author:
Charles Montesquieu
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Author:
Charles Montesquieu
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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Author:
Charles Montesquieu
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Author:
Charles Montesquieu
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Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
Author:
Alfred Montapert
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Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
Author:
Eugenio Montale
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Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.
Author:
Elizabeth Montagu
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God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.
Author:
Giovanni Mirandola
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As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.
Author:
Jeff Miller
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Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
Author:
Henry Miller
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
Author:
Ralph Merkle
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There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Author:
Herman Melville
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Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.
Author:
Marty Meehan
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Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
Author:
Julian McMahon
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In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions.
Author:
James McHenry
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If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.
Author:
Tom McClintock
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Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
Author:
Robert McChesney
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Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.
Author:
Carolyn McCarthy
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All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
Author:
James Maxwell
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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Author:
Karl Marx
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Author:
Harriet Martineau
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For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.
Author:
Murray Mann
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When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.
Author:
Benoit Mandelbrot
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God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.
Author:
Nicolas Malebranche
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Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.
Author:
Miriam Makeba
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
Author:
Naguib Mahfouz
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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.
Author:
James Madison
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
Author:
James Madison
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Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.
Author:
Charles Macklin
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
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A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.
Author:
Trofim Lysenko
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Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
Author:
Louis Louis XIV
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I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
Author:
Belva Lockwood
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There are laws for peace as well as war.
Author:
Titus Livius
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Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.
Author:
Howard Lindsay
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If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.
Author:
John Linder
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It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.
Author:
Blanche Lincoln
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
Author:
C. Lewis
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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.
Author:
Carl Levin
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
Author:
Doris Lessing
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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
Author:
Vladimir Lenin
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I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.
Author:
Gyorgy Legeti
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It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
Author:
Isidore Lautreamont
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
Author:
Walter Landor
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A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Author:
Zoltan Kodaly
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We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
Author:
Henry Knox
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The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.
Author:
Michael Kinsley
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So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.
Author:
Jack Kingston
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Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
Author:
Jack Kingston
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Author:
Barbara Kingsolver
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Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.
Author:
William King
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Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.
Author:
Mark Kennedy
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We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
Author:
Murray Kempton
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Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
Author:
Arthur Keith
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I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.
Author:
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
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It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
Author:
James Joule
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
Author:
Gary Johnson
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There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.
Author:
Andrew Johnson
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I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
Author:
Elton John
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First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts.
Author:
Bobby Jindal
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When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.
Author:
Bobby Jindal
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Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.
Author:
Bobby Jindal
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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
Author:
Jim Jeffords
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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
Author:
William James
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A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.
Author:
William Jackson
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The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
Author:
Andrew Jackson
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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Author:
Andrew Jackson
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It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
Author:
Andrew Jackson
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Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants.
Author:
Steve Israel
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What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
Author:
Christopher Isherwood
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We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.
Author:
Bob Inglis
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The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.
Author:
John Hutton
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As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
Author:
Anne Hutchinson
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Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.
Author:
Joseph Hume
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I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.
Author:
Joseph Hume
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The Growing Smarter laws now in place compel every community to plan their future growth and allow every citizen the right to be heard when those decisions are made.
Author:
Jane Hull
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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.
Author:
A. Housman
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Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.
Author:
John Hooker
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The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.
Author:
Ernest Holmes
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Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
Author:
Hans Hofmann
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
Author:
Hans Hofmann
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The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.
Author:
Charles Hodge
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If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.
Author:
Charles Hodge
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
Author:
Walter Hess
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There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance.
Author:
Werner Herzog
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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Author:
Audrey Hepburn
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I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.
Author:
Hermann Helmholtz
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Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
Author:
Hermann Helmholtz
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
Author:
J. Hayworth
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Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.
Author:
J. Hayworth
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
Author:
J. Hayworth
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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Author:
Stephen Hawking
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
Author:
Orrin Hatch
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I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
Author:
Albert Hart
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The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.
Author:
Daniel Hannan
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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.
Author:
Lord Halifax
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Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
Author:
Ernst Haeckel
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The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.
Author:
Martin Gross
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Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.
Author:
Martha Griffiths
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
Author:
Harold Greene
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Author:
Ulysses Grant
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
Author:
William Gladstone
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Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends.
Author:
Giovanni Giolitti
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Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
Author:
Ruth Ginsburg
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How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.
Author:
John Gilmore
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There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
Author:
George Gillespie
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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
Author:
Edward Gibbon
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Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
Author:
David Gerrold
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Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Author:
Antonio Gaudi
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Author:
Garet Garrett
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If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?
Author:
Martin Gardner
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All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
Author:
John Gardner
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The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
Author:
Richard Gallienne
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We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.
Author:
Elton Gallegly
