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"For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?"
"A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements."
"[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more."
"Only law can give us freedom."
"The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives."
"We run everything to ground. If you see something, say something. Report your concerns to law enforcement. They will be looked at, they will be reviewed."
"A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability."
"Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers."
"Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time."
"Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel."
"The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity--to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,"How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with?" When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma."
"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."
"The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men."
"The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree."
"The law of life is to leave behind the ground one is standing on and then step forward."
"Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason."
"Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."
"The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches."
"One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator."
"We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics."
