"Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half - good to rebel against."

Law, Rebellion, Order, Freedom

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"Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half - good to rebel against."

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"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"There ought to be a law against necessity."

E. Y. Harburg, American Musician

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"The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter."

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"The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due."

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"I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service."

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"The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor."

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"You can unlock spiritual things only from within."

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"People who have been initiated 'broke through in what felt like breaking down'."

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"Men as a class appear to be 'at risk, ' maybe even at high risk."

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"Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens."

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"When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through."

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"Faith for Jesus is the opposite of anxiety. If you are anxious, if you are trying to control everything, if you are worried about many things, you don't have faith, according to Jesus. You do not trust that God is good and on your side. You're trying to do it all yourself, lift yourself up by your own bootstraps."

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"Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft."

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"God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history."

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"Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely give men mandates, signposts, scaffolding and appealing images that tend to create religious identity and boundaries, but from the outside."

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"The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo ' even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future."

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