Quotes with in-laws

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  • Edmund Burke Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Adam Clarke Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Mark Twain Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Horace Mann Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Alexander Pope Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexis Carrel Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Edmund Burke Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • C. S. Lewis Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Miller Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines -these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Weiner More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Marquis de Sade Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell No laws, however liberal, will release us from our self-imposed taxes.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Mark Twain Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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