![To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.](/assets/img/quote-photos/to-regard-such-a-positive-mental-science-psychology-as-rising-above-the-sphere.jpg)
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake. Barbara Mertz
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When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself. Lucille Ball
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While you're being creative, nothing is wrong. There's no such thing as a mistake, and any drivel may lead to the breakthrough. John Cleese
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I'm paying for a mistake I made Luis Suarez
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[People] feel Washington doesn't understand their lives anymore, and they feel that even though Donald Trump might make a mistake with what he says from time to time, they see that as authenticity and maybe somebody who will truly pay attention to them, because they feel ignored. John Brabender
mistake government voice
But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government. John Boehner
mistake people trouble
People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles. Enoch Powell
mistake people common
The most common mistakes are showing people your product- don't show them your product, it's sort of like telling them bout a feature. Emmett Shear
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The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to.
law justice mystery
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends? Edmund Burke
lawyers neither nor took
took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared. Michael Jackson
law mind bears
You must bear in mind that each law is circumstantial. It does depend on the circumstances. Robert Greene
law important execution
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them. Thomas Jefferson
law judging safety
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.
law united-states void
[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void and of no force.
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Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.
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Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.