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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

by William H Mauldin Found in: Law Quotes,
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg read more

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

by Anatole France Found in: Law Quotes,
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Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only
entangle and hold the poor and weak, while read more

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only
entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful
will easily break through them.

by Anacharsis Found in: Law Quotes,
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Is not the winding up witnesses,
And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?
For witnesses, like watches, read more

Is not the winding up witnesses,
And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?
For witnesses, like watches, go
Just as they're set, too fast or slow;
And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,
'Tis ten to one that side is cast.

by Samuel Butler Found in: Law Quotes,
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Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.

Laws are only felt when the individual comes in conflict with them.

by Suzanne La Follette Found in: Law Quotes,
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The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument read more

The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

by Robert Bolt Found in: Law Quotes,
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If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be read more

If we consider that all we deal with represents constantly changing sub-microscopic, interrelated processes which are not, and cannot be ‘identical with themselves’, the old dictum that ‘everything is identical with itself’ becomes in [today’s understanding of the universe] a principle invariably false to facts.

by Alfred Korzybski Found in: Semantics Quotes,
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The law's made to take care o' raskills.

The law's made to take care o' raskills.

by George Eliot Found in: Law Quotes,
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

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