"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable."

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"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable."

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"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."

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"The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"The Law of Cause and Effect is as active in your life as the Law of Gravity. It teaches us that for every action there is a reaction."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"If you let loose a law, it willdo as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Suchsense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you haveforgotten to put into it."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to do with playing a good hand of poker than it does with justice."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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