- Punishment
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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
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
'By Any Means' follows a team of behind-the-scenes crime-prevention team - not police. They basically go to the areas of crime where the police can't touch and organised crime fighting units can't go to - in the public eye - to bring about real justice, treading the line between 'true' justice and what the law says is justice.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to law school because I didn't know how to earn a living otherwise. I tried to ignore the pull, but it wouldn't let me.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.
- Common Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Pnin' by Vladimir Nabokov, which is a literally small book, fit right in my common law book. I would sit in class and read it.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is that I'd always wanted to go to law school.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.
- Good Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest block today in the way of woman's emancipation is the church, the canon law, the Bible and the priesthood.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
- Miracles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020