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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
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"The laws of men are not infallible."
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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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"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."
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"Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation, manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people."
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"When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father."
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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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"This extraordinary tale of madness, leading up to Stephen being sectioned off to the lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, also reveals Stephen's eventual fight to win his freedom from the asylum, which saw his legal team mount a successful challenge against the 'criminally insane' label that was keeping him in Broadmoor. Moyle's legal team successfully argued that he was either a criminal or insane, he could not be both."
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"The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion."
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"Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry."
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"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."
Feelings
"My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated."
Body
"The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith."
Faith
"Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence."
Evolution
"Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public."
Society
"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
Intelligence
"The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization."
Choice
"Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness."
Belief
"These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science."
Art
"No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry."
Law
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