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"I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage."
"There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature."
"When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably) as a rhetorical device. Such cases do not function as speculations in the pejorative sense - as silly stories that provide insight into complex mechanisms - but rather as idealized illustrations to exemplify a difficult point of theory. (Other fields, like philosophy and the law, use such conjectural cases as a standard device."
"That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems that everything falls within its iron laws, is very common. Of course our own experience tells us that life is not as monochrome as these thinkers depict it. On the other hand they are very valuable because they alert us to transformations we are likely to take for granted."
"And this week, I am proposing legislation to strengthen our Open Records laws to make public access to our public records surer, faster, and more comprehensive."
"Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe."
"Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country."
"It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws."
"By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen."
"The universe is founded in consciousness and guided by it. The final reality is Universal Consciousness. The Supreme Consciousness is Omnipresent. Its evolutionary powers pervade the entire Universe. All processes of Nature are governed by the laws of this Absolute Force."
"The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions."
"Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me."
"Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard."
"The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."
"Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice."
"A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty."
"Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law."
"The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase."
"If you step out of a tenth story window you do not break the law of gravity, you confirm it."
"It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful."
