"Gender no longer forms an essential part of marriage; marriage under law is a union of equals."
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"There are no laws that prohibit an American president from continuing to be involved in their private business matters while in office, right?"
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"Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law."
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"In the depths all becomes law."
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"Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity."
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"People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments."
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"My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem."
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"Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with."
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"The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed."
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"But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?"
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"The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure."
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"Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring."
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"We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be."
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"We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience."
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"The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish."
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"Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being."
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"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 and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age."
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"Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence."
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"The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other."
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"There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey."
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