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"The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although the basic laws of physics are comparatively simple in form, they give rise, because they are computationally universal, to systems of enormous complexity."
"I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the rules. Law-abiding citizens are."
"I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone."
". . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . ."
"Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law."
"Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost"
"Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe them so much.” “Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers,” said Fred solemnly."
"This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard."
"Yeah, well, food's one of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfigurations," said Ron, to general astonishment."
"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."
"The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world."
"The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact."
"We are nothing but by the law."
"The law, that is what makes men stay honest."
"Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law."
"An unjust law in itself is an act of violence."
"There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being."
"If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage."
"The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton."
"Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being."
