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"Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind."	Sir Francis Bacon
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."	Albert Einstein
"To live as one likes is plebian; the noble man aspires to order and law."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself."	Truman Capote
"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
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."	Robert Lee Frost
"The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age."	Nadia Boulanger
"There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past."	Noam Chomsky
"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
"Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out."	James Dent
"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
"Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings."	Dave Barry
"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."	Aristotle
"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?"	(William) Ramsey Clark
"Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey."	Nicholson
"Laws were made to be broken."	Christopher North
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."	Confucius
"If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws."	Edward Abbey
"An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis [that] calls for firmness and restraint."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"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
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