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Aviva Chomsky Historian, Activist
Law

"Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist."

Country Law Rights
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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
Law

"Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning that is just beginning, or looks out into the evening that is full of happening, and if he feels what is going on there, then all status drops from him as from a dead man, though he stands in the midst of sheer life."

Men Law Morning
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Law

"Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations."

Law Science Nature
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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
Law

"It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice."

Law Animal Feet
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular."

Believe Country Law
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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author
Law

"A problem with school is that you often become what you study. If you study, let say cooking, you become a chef. If you study law, you become an attorney, and a study of auto mechanics makes you mechanics. The mistake in becoming what you study is that, too many people forget to mind their own business. They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich"

School Law Mistake
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Seth Lloyd Computer Scientist
Law

"Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions."

School Law Car
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Immanuel Kant Philosopher
Law

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."

Law Should Time
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Immanuel Velikovsky Psychoanalyst
Law

"If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with laws."

Law Historical Squares
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Oscar Wilde Writer
Law

"Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent."

Law Humor Clients
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Nelson Mandela Political Leader
Law

"The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law."

Law Humanity Accountability
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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
Law

"But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride."

Law Pride Punishment
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Law

"Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me; it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms."

People Law Irritation
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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
Law

"Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic."

Believe Reality Law
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