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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." »Marcus Aurelius
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"There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war." »Albert Einstein
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"There is no legal obligation to perform impossibilities." »Publius Celsus
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"Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind." »Kay Ingram
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"I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another." »Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799
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"A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join." »Elbert Hubbard
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"Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions." »Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Urine Test
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"It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.'" »Bertrand Russell
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"You add insult to injury." »Anonymous
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"To add insult to injury." »Phaedrus
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"There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal" »The National, Paris, 1850
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"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury." »William Blake
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"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult." »Lord Chesterfield
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"He who puts up with insult invites injury." »Jewish Proverb
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"You add insult to injury.
(Injuriae Addis Contumeliam)" »Anonymous
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"Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute." »Cicero
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"Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith." »Saint Francis of Assisi
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"Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense." »Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
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"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it." »Seneca
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"Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?" »Ernest Thompson Seton
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"Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers." »Ronald Reagan
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"Bootless grief hurts a man?s self, but patience makes a jest of an injury." »R Chamberlain
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"...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed." »Abraham Lincoln
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"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." »John Stuart Mill
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"A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part the kindness should begin on ours." »Tillotson
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"The three things most difficult are to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure." »Chilo
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"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury." »E. H. Chapin
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"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury." »Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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