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In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution. -- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. -- Francis Bacon
The Exxon Valdez spill triggered a swift and strong response that changed policies about shipping, about double-hulled construction. A number of laws came into place. -- Sylvia Earle
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. -- Isambard K. Brunel
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit. -- Samuel Freeman Miller
This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law. -- Julian Assange
There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated. -- Sue Grafton

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