Quotes 321 till 340 of 791.
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.
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Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
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Law, without force, is impotent.
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Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
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Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window.
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