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law moral action
All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. George Edward Moore
law secret shadow
Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows. Fernando Pessoa
language portuguese homeland
My homeland is the portuguese language.
later-in-life bars genius
No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be understood to be unfounded. But one should however proceed on merit, and not simply repeat wat was. All genius, sincere, deserves his place, even though maybe later in life. Felix Mendelssohn
law people president
Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them. Ferdinand Marcos
law branches language
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. Ferdinand de Saussure
language individual organs
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
law differences facts
The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of the fact that linguistic signs are unrelated to what they designate and that, therefore, 'a' cannot designate anything without the the aid of 'b' and vice versa, or, in other words, that both have value only by the difference between them.
law reason-why language
Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law
laughing important together
For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important. Felicity Kendal
law order effort
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts. Felix Adler
law use logic
Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents. Felix Frankfurter
law guilt enforcement
Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth.
law two body
Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.
law feet facts
To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
law feelings reason
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
land office important
No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
late rejects ought
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
law understanding tools
All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
laughing people comedy
Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh. Fede Alvarez
land years long
I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all. Feist
labyrinth world giants
I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads Federico Garcia Lorca
law sometimes above-the-law
Sometimes you have to go above the law. Fawn Hall
land bits walking
I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits. Fay Godwin
laughing people want
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh. Fanny Brice
laughter things-in-life laughing
I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy. Faith Hill
law government justice
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right. Ezra Stiles
latin thinking greek
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood. Ezra Pound
language humans human-wisdom
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
land constitution-of-the-united-states sacred
I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land. Ezra Taft Benson
land motorcycle trying
Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it Evel Knievel
law consciousness mechanic
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness. Eugene Wigner
law way consciousness
It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.