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Law Quotes
Rules, choices, and the order behind them.
This page draws on law in a broad sense — the rigorous logic of scientific theory, the real fork in the road between law school and an acting career, and a general preference for a quiet evening over anything more dramatic. For the legal system specifically, see our Legal quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although federal law prohibits companies with 15 or more employees from discriminating against pregnant job seekers, it can be quite hard for an ordinary woman to land a job if she lets prospective bosses know she is pregnant.
- Departments
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have to be consequences for police who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a shift in the use-of-force policies that are used in departments across the country.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.
- Back To School
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law.
- Back To School
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot violate the law.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Order is heaven's first law.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
- First Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020