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  • There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

    Book   Fire   Law  
    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation
  • I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.

    Book   Home   Thinking  
  • Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.

    Book   Law   Library  
  • Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be.

    Religious   Book   Law  
    John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.3, Penguin
  • In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

    Jimmy Earl Carter “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978”, Government Printing Office
  • Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

    Morning   Book   Golf  
  • A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.

    Book   Law   Moments  
    Source: thedailyhatch.org
  • You create your own universe as you go along.

    Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
  • But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.

    Husband   Father   Book  
  • With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.

    Book   Men   Law  
  • And I take this opportunity to declare, that... I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is. It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, - the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book.

    "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.
  • But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.

    Book   Mean   Law  
    "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.
  • A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.

    Book   Divorce   Law  
  • With our thoughts we make the world.

    Gautama Buddha (2016). “Zen Dogs”, p.36, Mango Media Inc.
  • More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

    Book   Biblical   Law  
  • There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required. All things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide them.

  • I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

    Book   Ignorance   Law  
    Franz Kafka (1983). “The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka”
  • It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.

    Book   Law   Names  
    Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.26, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
  • It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.

    Book   Animal   Law  
  • We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed necessary.

    Mother   Book   Law  
  • I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.

    Honesty   Book   Men  
    Davy Crockett, Thomas Chilton (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee”, p.135
  • What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

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