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When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
Wentworth Miller

School, Friends, Acting

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
Cecil B. DeMille

Impossible, Against, Ourselves

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
John Bolton

Government, Done, Different

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
Frances E. Willard

Time, Moving, Everything

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.
Ernestine Rose

Husband, Wife, Justice

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.
Eric Liu

Equality, Simple, End

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
Billie Jean King

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

Freedom, Enemy, Dictator

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.
Charles Schumer

Respect, Judge, Someone

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that's not what any of us should want from our judges.
Charles Schumer

Bad, Whether, Left

I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.
Patty Hearst

War, Successful, Until

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Frank Herbert

Religion, Yourself, Become

At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications.
Dennis Hastert

Hope, Today, End

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
Titus Livius

Whole, Meet, Satisfied

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.
Maggie Gallagher

Give, Away, Choice

Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.
Anne Boleyn

Good, Nothing, Die

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.
Stockwell Day

Education, Sex, Same

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.
Stockwell Day

God, Rule, Principles

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.
Portia de Rossi

Acting, Loved, Stumbled

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

Life, Education, Art

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
Aly Khan

Great, Legal, Islam

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.
Curtis Stone

Dad, School, Away

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
Barney Frank

Put, Poverty, Effort

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.
Leon Panetta

Individual, Either, Cruel

The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.
Jeremy Rifkin

Control, United, Gone

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Writing, Around, Making

This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
Jack Kevorkian

Trial, Lynching

The law is cruel.
Jack Kevorkian

The law doesn't create a right.
Jack Kevorkian

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
Andrew Marvell

Nature, Great, Except

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