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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Dickens
law principles bleak-house
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. Charles Dickens
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot. Charles Dickens
ethics be-good respectable
It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. Edith Sitwell
ethics morality
Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic. Bertrand Russell
ethics conviction concerned
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. Arthur Keith
ethics file individual leader members minority nancy party truce
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has never been a party to an ethics truce and has always said that individual members have the right to file a complaint. Jennifer Crider
ethics folks session
We're having an ethics session in the first place because of these folks that got in trouble. Bob Davis
ethics contemplation form
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity. Aristotle
ethics great half kids paycheck require send teach
We send them all through McDonald's. It's a great place to teach kids the ethics of working. We require them to put half their paycheck in the bank. Suzy Buchholtz
ethics process question
The question is not about me but about the process and the ethics, Lance Armstrong
ethics morality
Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly. Aleksandar Hemon