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Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

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In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.

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The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

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I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

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But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

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The wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid.

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There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

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When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

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The future is not laid out on a track. It is something that we can decide, and to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.

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Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.

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Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it.

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Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

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God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision.

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'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

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And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

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My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

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Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

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True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.

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