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law knowing shy
Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person. Charles Dickens
law justice water
In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water. Charles Caleb Colton
law land tree
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law idiot ass
The law is an ass, an idiot.
law equity appearing
Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.
law lawyer mere
But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
law idiot ass
If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.
america laughing way
America is laughing her way to Hell. Aiden Wilson Tozer
american-athlete carry everyday player team
We want them to know what it's like to be a leader, what it's like to be a team player because those things carry on in everyday life. Troy Vincent
america long pumps
For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills. Chris Chocola
america poverty social
Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard, and played by the rules, and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America. Chris Christie
america people anxiety
The biggest anxiety is just about America's role in the world. People are feeling very unsafe. They really are. They're just wondering whether, anything can be done to try to stabilize the world a little bit.
america stay-true-to-yourself
Dammit, America is a hellhole and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
america decision care
I had to make these decisions after 9/11, make a decision about how to proceed forward with an investigation or how to pull back, whether you use certain actionable intelligence or whether not to. And yet they continue to debate about this bill and in the subcommittee and what - nobody in America cares about that.
america would-be cliffs
If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.
america choices black
Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
unjust injustice one-thing
those who are unjust in one Thing, will be so in others ... Eliza Haywood
unjust merit done
Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them. Jane Austen
unjust may persuasion
Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
unjust ancestry birth
Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. Edmund Burke
unjust-society justice honor
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. Confucius
unjust philosopher free-will
There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must. Ambrose Bierce
unjust accepting guidelines
The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust. Anthony Kennedy
unjust never-change lows
There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. Albert Camus
unjust illness metaphor
Illnesses have always been used as metaphors to enliven charges that a society was corrupt or unjust. Susan Sontag