"It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have."
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"There ought to be a law about you coming around."
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"If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone."
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"Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws."
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"I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy."
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"The law of correspondence says your outer world is a mirror of your inner world. Your outer world corresponds to your inner world. Your outer world of your relationships-especially with your children and spouse-simply corresponds to how you feel about yourself, how you're doing"
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"Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation."
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"God never made something out of nothing; it is not in the economy or law by which the worlds were, are, or will exist"
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"A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it."
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"All that the Lord requires of us is strict obedience to the laws of life. All the sacrifice that the Lord asks of his people is strict obedience to our own covenants that we have made with our God, and that is to serve him with an undivided heart."
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"Polls suggest that more and more, opposition to Obamacare is based on voters' personal experience, and not just on what they have heard or read about the law."
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"Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws."
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"I think the law as it is today probably does prohibit an off-reservation casino, but there is uniqueness to Turtle Mountain and there is uniqueness to the state, and these things need to be looked at."
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"Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish."
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"Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth."
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"Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed."
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"You believe in a god that plays dice; I believe in law & order."
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"But nature did not deem it her business to make the discovery of her laws easy for us."
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"Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding."
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"In Cuba the elections for the powers of the State comes from the people, first it comes from meetings of the citizens at the base. In Cuba we call them blocks, the divisions of a city that is the term we use. Several blocks of neighborhoods that live in the same area gather in assemblies that are stipulated by law. In those assemblies the people choose freely among themselves who will represent them. The criteria takes into account the candidates characteristics, including if they are hardworking, If they are good people, if they have a clean past, and money has no bearing on who is nominated."
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