Quotes with by-laws

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  • Douglas Adams Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Byron Dorgan Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Iain Banks One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them.
    The Player of Games (1988) 279
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • Lord Acton Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Jimmy Carter Our commitment to human rights must be absolute, our laws fair, our natural beauty preserved; the powerful must not persecute the weak and human dignity must be enhanced.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Gerald R. Ford Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
    Gerald R. Ford
    American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • James A. Froude Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Alberto Moravia Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
    Alberto Moravia
    Italian writer (ps. by Alberto Pincherle) (1907 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Carolyn McCarthy Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edmund Burke People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Ouida Petty laws breed great crimes.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Henry Miller Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Carolyn Chute Sadly I don't work well under restrictions. I need to forget the world and its rules and laws in order to enter the dreamlike flow of the fictional world. So I may be in some bad trouble.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Carl Levin Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Tryon Edwards Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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