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"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Common sense often makes good law."	William Orville Douglas
"Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all."	Lavina Goodell
"Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success? Indeed it does not! ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind."	John W. Hanley
"Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe."	Christine Lane
"Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable."	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."	Aristotle
"For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency."	Eric Ambler
"For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it."	James 2:10 Bible
"From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul; it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment; and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man; yea, thou art from everlasting."	Hermes
"From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty." (On signing law for inclusion of the words 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance, 14 Jun 54)"	Dwight David Eisenhower
"Good men must not obey the laws too well."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Gun control has not worked in D.C. The only people who have guns are criminals. We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. It's quicker to pull your Smith & Wesson than to dial 911 if you're being robbed."	Lowell Duckett
"He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"	Dick Clark
"I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit."	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else-I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations."	Elizabeth II
"I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)"	Dwight David Eisenhower
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it..."	Learned Hand
"I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
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