Quotes with law-makers

Quotes 281 till 300 of 429.

  • Ann Macbeth The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Barry Commoner The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Barry Commoner The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
    Source: The Closing Circle
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Alexander Cockburn The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Mrs. Humphrey Ward The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
    Source: Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The good of the people is the greatest law.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Henry David Thoreau The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The highest virtue is always against the law.
    Source: Conduct of Life (1876) Worship
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl Sagan The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Edward Coke The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
    Source: Prohibitions del Roy
    Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge and politician (1552 - 1634)
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  • David Hume The law always limits every power it gives.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Vauvenargues The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Adolf Loos The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Aristotle The law is reason, free from passion.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Quentin Crisp The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Raymond Chandler The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Joseph Edward Murphy The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
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  • James Allen The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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