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When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen. — Emo Philips
There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or… — H. L. Mencken
Love knoweth no laws. — John Lyly
The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place. — Wei Jingsheng
Epitaph on Newton: Nature and Nature's law lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be!," and all was light. [added by Sir John Collings… — George Polya
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar chant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and… — Jonathan Swift
And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more… — Roy Barnes
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws,… — George Crook
To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people. — Van Jones
Greatness breaks laws. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated… — Willard Van Orman Quine
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest… — Thomas Jefferson
. . . nothing could be more grotesquely unjust than a code of morals, reinforced by laws, which relieves men from responsibility for irregular sexual… — Suzanne La Follette
It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it… — Arthur Eddington
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. — Samuel Smiles
How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned,… — Samuel Johnson
The laws are with us, and God on our side. — Robert Southey
The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their… — Niccolo Machiavelli
No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because of INTERNAL CORRUPTION,… — Melvin J. Ballard

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