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Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation. -- Charice Pempengco
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. -- Kathryn Stockett
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. -- Mark Twain
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. -- Marianne O. Battani
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 Carter
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. -- Franz Kafka
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. -- Nat Hentoff
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. -- Louis Nizer
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. -- Mark Twain
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books. -- Orson Scott Card
I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that. -- Floyd Abrams
My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books. -- Hilda Solis
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school. -- Susan Orlean
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them. -- Michael Bloomberg
As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books. -- Jeff Miller
The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens. -- Colm Toibin
Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol. -- Allen West
I think the government should do everything they possibly can to, to bring this crisis to an end; and that means going after BP, enforcing the laws that are on the books, and restoring the gulf to its original condition. -- John Boehner
It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote. -- Al Sharpton
What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books. -- Christopher Isherwood
The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. -- Eldridge Cleaver
My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state. -- Jim Garrison
I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading. -- Joseph Bruchac
I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them. -- John Grisham
The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for the purpose of facilitating more national debt, not reducing it. It still serves that purpose. It's unconnected to spending, hurts our credit rating and has been an abject failure at limiting debt. -- David Malpass
Law dies, books never. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course. -- Ray Bradbury
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them. -- Harold Laski
I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent. -- Milton Friedman
There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna stop a criminal from getting a gun. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna stop a criminal from getting a gun. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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