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'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society. -- Catherine Wilson
The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract. -- Henry James Sumner Maine
One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it. -- Dick Gephardt
If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy. -- Malcolm Wallop
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'. -- George Herbert
Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that. -- Pete du Pont
It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day. -- Edward Jenks
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me? -- Charles Stross
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" -- Charles Stross
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry. -- H. G. Wells
There's no doubt that when the Republican Party took over in 1994, the 'Contract with America' was an opportunity to implement some things - like welfare reform and some of the other initiatives. Then, it kind of lost its steam. -- Marco Rubio
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. -- Confucius
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. -- Robert A. Heinlein
TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract. -- Tom Brokaw
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. -- George Bernard Shaw
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed. -- Gene Tierney
A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you. -- Lou Holtz
An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. -- Tom Coburn
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist. -- Kurt Cobain
It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there. -- Deion Sanders
You get the part, sign the contract and start to realize millions of people follow this guy and know more about your character than you do. -- Chris Hemsworth
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. -- Alan Shepard
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word. -- Brooks Robinson
When the courts decide that murderers, rapists, and others who maliciously break our social contract deserve health care that most working Americans can't afford, they are condemning good people to death. -- Tammy Bruce
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. -- Walt Disney
In my lifetime, as a younger man, you were assumed to be an honest person. Your word was your bond, and a handshake was as good as a contract in business. -- Mark Skousen
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good. -- Simon Mainwaring
I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected. -- Regina Spektor
A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled. -- David Augsburger
I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart. -- Pete Seeger
I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. -- Charlie Sheen
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people. -- John Marshall
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them. -- Barack Obama
We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well. -- Nikola Tesla
The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich. -- Fran Tarkenton
When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.' -- Gail Devers
A poet's first contract is with truth. -- Vanna Bonta
What usually comes first is the contract. -- Ira Gershwin
The best thing to break is a contract. -- W. C. Fields
The bigger the contract, the bigger the responsibility. -- Pedro Martinez
"The contract's null and void, by the way." -- Richelle Mead
Until the contract is signed, nothing is real. -- Glenn Danzig
Love is not a contract between two narcissists. -- Alain Badiou
The oldest theory of contract is I think negative. -- Frederick Pollock
Food is a part of our contract with life. -- Bryant H. McGill
reading is at the beginning of the social contract -- Alberto Manguel
Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow. -- Carol Anshaw
A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. -- Robert Higgs
The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries. -- Jose Angel Gurria
Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already. -- Linda Fiorentino
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. -- Samuel Goldwyn
And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000. -- Don Shula
ÊºThe contractÊ¹s null and void, by the way.Êº -- Richelle Mead
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Things work once you have property, trade and contract in place. -- William G. Kline
Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract. -- Brett Favre
When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games. -- Eddie Murray
Marriage is a legal contract -- it's not a sacred thing. -- Sarah J. Maas
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The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract. -- Peter Gavin Hall
My agents are busy with the final details of the contract. -- Guus Hiddink
I never had a written contract, was never officially a stable jockey. -- Tony McCoy
[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it. -- Ken Blanchard
If I signed a contract that meant someone else wouldn't be playing. -- Mike Vallely
I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty. -- Karin Slaughter
Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece. -- Brenda Holloway
I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray. -- Henry Giroux
Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money. -- Diane Cilento
To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones. -- George Washington
Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls. -- Bob Hope
Morality is either a social contract or you have to pay cash. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player. -- Ely Culbertson
The Disney deal created some wrinkles. I'm under contract. But I'm on standby. -- Paul S. Kemp
Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes. -- Cathy Rigby
When you speak and affirm, you are creating a verbal contract with yourself. -- Bryant McGill
It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations. -- John Walker Lindh
Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best. -- Terry Southern
Unless the habit leads to happiness the best habit is to contract none. -- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused. -- Claudia Cardinale
If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself. -- Justin Theroux
Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract. -- Peter Steele
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated. -- George Bernard Shaw
The only way to stop Jim Brown was to give him a movie contract. -- Carl "Spider" Lockhart
A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution. -- Scott Hahn
The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies. -- Jello Biafra
I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC. -- David Selby
I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years. -- Gloria Stuart
Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract. -- Tommy Shaw
As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices. -- Babatunde Fashola
First of all: no one in their right mind would sign an exclusive contract. -- Rob Walton
I will sign every contract Arsenal put in front of me without reading it. -- Tony Adams
Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders? -- Ted Rall
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. -- Walter Winchell
I'm hesitant anytime someone puts a contract in front of me that has two-year options. -- Samuel Witwer
I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract. -- Paul Ince
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. -- Epicurus
America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal. -- George Kaiser
Love is giving, marriage is buying and selling. You can't put love into a contract. -- Margaret Atwood
The contract like '91 Dan Marino. I swear this guy Michael Rapino's boostin my ego. -- Drake
We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years. -- Leslie Caron
It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign. -- Warren Buffett
When you fail to be your own boss, You are giving somebody else the contract. -- Richard Marcel I.
I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here. -- Rio Ferdinand
Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way. -- Isabel Allende
If it's not a contract I want then I won't sign it. That's not a threat. -- Roy Keane
Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls. -- Jeremy Taylor
The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract. -- Beatrice Lillie
Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract. -- Chuck Hagel
It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made. -- Dan Quisenberry
I have a fun clause in my contract. If I'm not having fun, I can leave. -- James Burrows
Every law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept. -- John Selden
You have a sacred contract with the Universe, and no one can fulfill it except you. -- Gary Zukav
First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode. -- Anthony Michael Hall
Marriage is by nature a covenant, Not just a private contract one may cancel at will.. -- Bruce C. Hafen
The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. -- John Lydon
Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed. -- David Korten
The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well. -- David Paul

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