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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother them with a logical argument about something they have agreed to in society simplistically - like children are sacred, the cult of the child, this cult of professional parenthood, and of course religion, and respect for policemen and the law, and all of these untouchable areas. I like attacking those beliefs, but in with good sound thinking, and an unusual approach."

Thinking Children Law
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"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings."

Men Law Nature
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
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"The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions."

Law Teaching Godly
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George Will Political Commentator, Author
Law

"The First Amendment...begins with the five loveliest words in the English language: 'Congress shall make no law'."

Law Firsts Constitution
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Glenn Reynolds Blogger, Commentator
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"As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend your taxes, it always seems to go to some guy in a leather chair downtown you never heard of."

Law Father Teacher
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Henry George Economist, Journalist
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"The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion"

Men Law Political
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Norman Ralph Augustine Business Executive
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"The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all of your time talking about nothing."

Law Talking Numbers
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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony in a court of law. Honesty is a vital part of having a good reputation."

Lying Law Honesty
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John Locke Philosopher, Physician
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"Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves."

Law Political Philosophy
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Johnny Cash Musician, Singer-songwriter
Law

"Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free."

Law Order Wall
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Joseph Prince Pastor
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"I'm not saying everything out there is bad and toxic, but there are some things that are not scriptural. For example, some people don't understand that the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."

People Law Jesus
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Martin Luther Theologian
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"Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness - this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain."

Mean Law Healing
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin."

Law Party Love Is
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Paul Martin Politician
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"I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law."

Law Rights Land
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Plato Philosopher
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"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."

Men Law Order
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Pythagoras Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like."

Law Knows All Things
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Elon Musk Entrepreneur, Business Magnate
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"Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business."

Law Effort Competition
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Evan Davis Journalist
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"A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law."

Self Law Expression
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Baruch Spinoza Philosopher, Rationalist
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"Nothing comes to pass in nature, which can be set down to a flaw therein; for nature is always the same, and everywhere one and the same in her efficacy and power of action: that is, nature's laws and ordinances, whereby all things come to pass and change from one form to another, are everywhere and always the same; so that there should be one and the same method of understanding the nature of all things whatsoever, namely, through nature's universal laws and rules."

Law Understanding Nature
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