"Do not unto another that you would hot have him do unto you. Thou needest this law alone. It is the foundation of all the rest."
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"We are a democracy and we don't believe in just hunting down gangsters and killing them. We believe in trying to find the gangsters and bring them back for trial, and give them a trial under rule of law. That's what democracies do."
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"It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws."
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"The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant."
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"The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires."
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"Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not because merchants are stupid or lack taste. Rather, the problem is that any individual merchant's sign won't be noticed unless it's bigger and more garish than those of rival merchants."
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"He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!"
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"The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality."
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"The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal, and have done so for a very long time.... Respondent would have us announce, as the Court of Appeals did, a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do."
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"As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail."
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"The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state."
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"You believe in a God who plays dice, I in complete law and order."
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"Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles."
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"War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown."
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"This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency."
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"The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws."
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"People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature."
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"Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters"
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"Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of mastery of the world, it has an infinite number of facets, the vincula that connect man with his vital activity; and even if the path towards knowledge is unending, no step that takes man nearer to a full understanding of the meaning of his existence can be too small to count."
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"Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel."
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