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"To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible."
Maimonides
"To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible."
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"These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws."
Steve Finley
"These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws."
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"After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system."
Otto Schily
"After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system."
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"The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law."
James A. Garfield
"The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law."
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"The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities."
Rudolf Hilferding
"The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities."
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"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable."
Raymond Chandler
"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable."
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"Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels."
Henry Fox
"Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels."
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"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
Thomas Paine
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
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"Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds."
Bob Black
"Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds."
Law,
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"And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties."
James Stockdale
"And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties."
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"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."
Brigham Young
"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."
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"Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants."
Steve Israel
"Our Nation's immigration laws are disrespected both by those who cross our borders illegally and by the businesses that hire those illegal immigrants."
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"When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied."
Tacitus
"When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied."
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"Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law."
George Herbert Mead
"Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law."
Law,
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"The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases."
Larry Wall
"The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases."
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"The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973."
Bo Gritz
"The fact is that the Vietnamese held Americans after 1973."
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"Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law."
Richard Lamm
"Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law."
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"The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other."
James Smithson
"The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other."
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"Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other."
Irving Ravetch
"Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other."
Law,
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"A law is not a law without coercion behind it."
James A. Garfield
"A law is not a law without coercion behind it."
Law,
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"The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct."
Paul Ricoeur
"The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct."
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"Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what's coming across that border today are bad guys!"
Russell Pearce
"Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what's coming across that border today are bad guys!"
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"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt."
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt."
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"It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law."
Cecil B. DeMille
"It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law."
Law,
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"I was actually going to law school in 1972."
Frank Shorter
"I was actually going to law school in 1972."
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"Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious."
Hugo Black
"Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious."
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"And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again."
David Steinberg
"And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again."
Law,
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"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
Dan Castellaneta
"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
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"It's a bomb. I've already called law enforcement. Let's get out of here."
Richard Jewell
"It's a bomb. I've already called law enforcement. Let's get out of here."
Law,
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"This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic."
James Bovard
"This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic."
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"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom."
John Locke
"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom."
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"Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied."
Charles de Secondat
"Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied."
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"So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years."
Aaron Neville
"So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years."
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"The severity of the laws prevents their execution."
Charles de Montesquieu
"The severity of the laws prevents their execution."
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"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."
Andrew Johnson
"There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws."
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"If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from."
Robert Benchley
"If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from."
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"If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause."
Charles Morgan
"If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause."
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"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
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"Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns."
Louis XIV
"Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns."
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"We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence."
Pete Domenici
"We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence."
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"I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing."
Esther Dyson
"I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing."
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"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."
Walt Whitman
"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."
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"Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law."
Will Durant
"Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law."
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"And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive."
Roy Barnes
"And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive."
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"Laws undertake to punish only overt acts."
Charles de Montesquieu
"Laws undertake to punish only overt acts."
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"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."
Doris Lessing
"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."
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"I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules."
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
"I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules."
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"A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare."
Bainbridge Colby
"A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare."
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"My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law."
Jerry Seinfeld
"My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law."
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"Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them."
Hermann Hesse
"Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them."
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