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A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as… — Reinhold Niebuhr
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same — Zoltan Kodaly
There is another peculiar satisfaction in really hearing someone: It is like listening to the music of the spheres, because beyond the immediate message of… — Carl Rogers
Phenomena complex-laws simple....Know what to leave out. — Richard P. Feynman
America ... where laws and customs alike are based on the dreams of spinsters. — Bertrand Russell
London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense,… — Paul Verlaine
The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule… — Paul Laxalt
Dear Mr. President: ... We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if… — Joe Lieberman
I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks — Paul Samuelson
Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and… — William A. Dembski
We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we… — Jerry A. Coyne
I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more… — Nikola Tesla
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall… — Pope Pius XI
Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not… — Byron Dorgan
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or… — John Rawls
Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves. — Benjamin Franklin
We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but the… — Unknown Author
There are laws for everything except the harm families do. — Sue Grafton
The more woman aims for personal identity and autonomy ... the fiercer will be her struggle with nature - that is, with the intractable physical… — Camille Paglia
Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people. — Archibald Cox
Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient… — Paul Gauguin
John Boehner has to start taking a macro step towards the American people, away from the more radical elements of his party. You know, it's… — Unknown Author
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President… — Andrew Jackson
Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of… — Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Nowhere else in the world do the laws on firearms become the playthings of politicians and lobbyists intent on manufacturing cultural conflict. Nowhere else do… — E. J. Dionne

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