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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."
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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
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"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."
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"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
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"Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is."
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"It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws."
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"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
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"Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!"
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"What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
Man
"A witty saying proves nothing."
Nothing
"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."
Power
"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."
Nothing
"Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same."
Love
"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."
Life
"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."
God
"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."
Opportunity
"I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom."
Truth
"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated."
God
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