Quotes with sister-in-law

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  • Mark Twain What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Mark Twain What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bobby Jindal When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Benjamin Harrison When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
    State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Barney Frank When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Cass Sunstein When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Orson Welles When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Shana Alexander When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!
    Shana Alexander
    American journalist (1925 - 2005)
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  • Al Gore When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert Francis Kennedy Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Fielding Where the law ends tyranny begins.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Napoleon Who saves his country violates no law.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • William Mcilvanney Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
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