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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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."
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"It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star."

"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."

"If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."

"It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory."

"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."

"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."

"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.""
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