- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
- No Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Necessity has no law.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
- Privacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I showed that privacy was an implicit right in Jewish law, probably going back to the second or third century, when it was elaborated on in a legal way.
- Privacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a result of this article, I was invited to testify in the Senate Judiciary Committee on privacy law.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.
- Secrets
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everything should be governed by law. We don't want to keep secrets anymore.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020