- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Divest Quotes
Words on divesting rights, money, and old habits
These divest quotes explore legal principles around vested contract rights that a later law cannot quotes simply undo.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York City must divest the hundreds of millions of dollars we have invested in Walmart for far too long, dollars that are only fueling violence and undermining the greater public interest. Once our nation's largest city does so, I know other states and municipalities will follow suit.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.
- Clicks
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020