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law justice authority
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law Thomas Hobbes
law firsts fundamentals
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it. Thomas Hobbes
law innovation needs
Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates. Tim Walberg
latin philosophy civilization
I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations. Tim Blake Nelson
laughing people enjoy
It's hard to be sad when you're laughing, so I enjoy making people happy. Tim Conway
law messages needs
If I'm expected to keep your messages, and everybody else's, then there should be a law that says, you need to keep all of these. Tim Cook
law enforcement cameras
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac. Tim Cook
lasts professionalism standards
When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last. Tim Berners-Lee
laughter exertion
Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me. Thomas Love Peacock
laughter age too-much
Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me. Thomas Love Peacock
land ego needs
But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth. Thomas Ligotti
law judging judgement
The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it. Thomas Jefferson
law self preservation
The law of self-preservation is higher than written law. Thomas Jefferson
law limits citizens
Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits. Thomas Jefferson
law force difficulty
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force. Thomas Jefferson
law giving arbitrary
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience. Thomas Jefferson
law keys may
[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the express words of the law. Thomas Jefferson
law tyrants inalienable-rights
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. Thomas Jefferson
law rights voting
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law. Thomas Jefferson
law giving liberty
Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it. Thomas Jefferson
law justice judging
If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact. Thomas Jefferson
last-words fourth
This is the fourth... Thomas Jefferson
law england crime
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it. Thomas Francis Meagher
lag estimating agendas
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. Thomas J. Sargent
law perfect firsts
In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. Thomas Jordan Jarvis
ladders showing-up good-enough
Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough. As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen
laughter fall thinking
I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy. Woody Allen
law lobster done
Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib. Woody Allen
law doubt sovereign
I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State. William Whipple
law ease world
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this;-we can perceive that events are brought about, not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular ease, but by the establishment of general laws. William Whewell
language speak dare
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning. William Whewell
lasts
Small service is true service, while it lasts. William Wordsworth
law heat conflict
And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw. William Wordsworth