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The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is… — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity;… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“The Lawyers Know Too Much THE LAWYERS, Bob, know too much. They are chums of the books of old John Marshall. They… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
When I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing. Sometimes… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
Exactly who is this God character who is said to be all-powerful yet needs to hire lawyers to take us to court?… — Scott Simon Copy Share Image
We got married drunk in Vegas . . . We dated for a year, and we got married at a drive-through chapel… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many times I get into a taxicab in New York or Los Angeles, and I'm talking to… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The only sexism involved in the Miers nomination is the administration's claim that once they decided they wanted a woman, Miers was… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something… — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
The war in Afghanistan was fought for feminist reasons, and the Marines were really on this feminist mission. But today, all the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I have two wonderful, supportive and very practical parents who were like, you're really talented and really creative. You should be a… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are… — Robert L. Bartley Copy Share Image
There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Both my parents were high school teachers, and they were beloved high school teachers, so I constantly meet people through my dad's… — Janet Varney Copy Share Image
The lawyers doing the sorting for Secretary Clinton in 2014 did not individually read the content of all of her e-mails, as… — James Comey Copy Share Image
I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
There is a history of mathematical models of oligopolistic competition dating from Cournot to the theory of games. There is also a… — Martin Shubik Copy Share Image
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights,… — James Belushi Copy Share Image
I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics - it is all too often about personalities and emotion - but I… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
“Lawyers often face intense demands but have relatively little “decision latitude.” Behavioral scientists use this term to describe the choices, and perceived… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
There's spatial intelligence. they're, which end up being, people going into math or music. there's mechanical where you work well with your… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Michael Sorrell had no experience running a college. He had been a lawyer and White House special assistant, but he knew Paul… — Hari Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
“He had a toughness about him, and his five grand Savile Row suit did little to hide the fact that he worked… — Dave Zeltserman Copy Share Image
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But I'm not a lawyer. That's why I can see what the law is like. It's like a single-bed blanket on a… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image