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I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
Evel Knievel

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.
Maria Mitchell

Nature, God, Praise

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.
Harvey Weinstein

Age, Through, Again

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
Ben Stein

Amazing, Short, Themselves

At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
William Hague

Time, Hope, Government

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
George Henry Lewes

Truth, Him, Accepted

I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.
Monica Lewinsky

School, Guess, Attorneys

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
Charles Morgan

School, Working, Three

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
Joni Mitchell

Life, Religion, Ignorance

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.
Frank Shorter

Time, School, Training

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
Martin Buber

Deep, Him, Within

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
Demosthenes

Freedom, Enemy, Dictator

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Progress, Rule, Starting

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Time, Long, Here

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes

Him, Nor, Error

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.
William J. Brennan

Cannot, Around, Social

Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.
Kevin Mitnick

Working, Once, Firm

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James F. Cooper

Men, Opinion, Public

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
David Mamet

Government, Black, Both

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.
Jonathan Kozol

Learning, Why, Child

To be clear... no one is above the law.
Andrew Cuomo

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.
Ruben Blades

Place, Sense, Lawyer

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Human, Book, Give

I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.
Bryan Cranston

Nature, Tell, Against

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
Addison Mizner

Ignorance, Excuses, Practicing

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
Barry Commoner

Life, Education, Art

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
Paul Ricoeur

Good, Moral, Possible

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
Harold S. Geneen

Business, Reality, Words

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law.
Hosni Mubarak

Before, Youth, Rights

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.
Sonia Sotomayor

Experience, Legal, Looking

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