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law knowing shy
Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person. Charles Dickens
law justice water
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water. Charles Caleb Colton
law justice criminals
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
law land tree
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law would-be rays
You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot.
advancement prosperity pondering
There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science. Ali ibn Abi Talib
advancement constitution public-good
The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good. Alexander Hamilton
advancement should human-life
Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life. Nathan Deal
advancement standing-alone despotism
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. John Stuart Mill
advancement ambiguity greater
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. Thomas Reid
advancement robots would-be
Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me. Stanley Bing
origin-of-species species transmit
... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. Charles Darwin
origin-of-species natural-selection strongest
Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.