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God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obe...

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God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obe...

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God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obe...

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God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obe...

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I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years...

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I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work t...

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I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years...

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I will be vigilant to protect the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court, and I will work t...

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I know, Ma. I'm a-tryin'. But them deputies- Did you ever see a deputy that didn't have a fat ass? A...

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The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely th...

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I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had ...

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True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some...

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Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and...

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You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You...

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with deat...

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Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been ...

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Jonathan SwiftGulliver's Travels

in America we have people from all kinds of backgrounds, all in a cluster, together, and consequentl...

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Law is born from despair of human nature.

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

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Jules Verne20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behav...

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The law, and society, and religion all said it was impossible to be sane, healthy, and kill yourself...

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If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece...

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By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His ...

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Karen ArmstrongA History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is s...

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I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, an...

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There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to st...

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Law & order embrace on hate's border.

Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court c...

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It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can sa...

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Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.

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Lawrence LessigFree Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with 'the copy.' The law should not regulate 'copies'...

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Lawrence LessigRemix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court c...

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Imagine a problem in psychology: to find a way of getting people in our day and age - Christians, hu...

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War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is...

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Libba BrayThe Sweet Far Thing

I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll...

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In cross-examination as in fishing nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water...

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The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization ...

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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chap...

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Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law g...

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The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercis...

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The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of scien...

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America is not perfect. It took a bloody civil war to free over 4 million African Americans who live...

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Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be cons...

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I was glad that our venerable, almost formless religions, drained of all intransigence and purged of...

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Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more d...

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Marguerite YourcenarMemoirs of Hadrian

Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to cha...

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Marguerite YourcenarMemoirs of Hadrian

If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very diffe...

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Marilynne RobinsonWhen I Was a Child I Read Books

The provisions for the poor which structure both land ownership and the sacred calendar in ancient I...

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Marilynne RobinsonWhen I Was a Child I Read Books

I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who cr...

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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and establi...

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Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds th...

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We magistrates find that reason is the easiest thing in the world to dispense with; banished from ou...

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The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deepl...

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Satan, the god of all dissension stirs up daily new sects. And last of all which of all others I sho...

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Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not ...

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Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep. And this you...

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Martin LutherOn Christian Liberty

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I t...

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If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and t...

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A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

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Massad AyoobIn the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

Every new time will give its law.

There are those who say we must rescind the Golan Heights law that was passed in the Knesset. To res...

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We have to get control of our borders. You can only do that if you make companies obey the law and n...

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On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is ...

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[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what con...

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Michel FoucaultThe History of Sexuality

Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.

I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be go...

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I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 1...

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Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the bu...

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Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now i...

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Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? T...

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My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, a...

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There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there'...

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The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the surviva...

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Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for th...

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In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. ...

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There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intell...

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Actually, Bush, technically speaking, is not really President-because he refused to take the Oath of...

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Noam ChomskyUnderstanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve thei...

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I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or thir...

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The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracl...

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The English laws punish vice the Chinese laws do more they reward virtue.

Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.

The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings ...

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if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution fr...

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When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that th...

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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth ...

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A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that mornin...

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Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way if justice.

Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what ...

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The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' ...

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Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which...

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