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"An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court." »Finley Peter Dunne
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"For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure." »Sir Arthur Eddington, The Philosophy of Physical Science
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"For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the court our confidence is that it would be certified by the court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure." »Sir Arthur Eddington
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"Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court." »William Shakespeare
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"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it." »Learned Hand, jurist
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"Life is too short for traffic." »Dan Bellack
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"There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile." »Anonymous
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"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic." »Arnold Bennett
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"traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines." »David Letterman
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"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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"There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court." »Clarence Darrow
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"Without the court system, we as a whole, would not reach new heights and better ourselves." »Anonymus
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"A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever." »Henry Waldorf Francis
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"An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool." »Sylvia Fine Kaye
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"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams." »Mary Ellen Kelly
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"The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day." »Malcolm De Chazal
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"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." »Ellen Goodman
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"We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (On dismissing 12,000 striking air traffic controllers)" »Ronald Reagan
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"Who are you going to shoot joking with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty." »Norm Crosby
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"My girlfriend sleeps in a queen-sized bed and I sleep in a court jester-sized bed." »Steven Wright, I Have a Pony
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"Half circus and half Supreme court." »James Barrett Scotty Reston
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"Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people." »Aristotle
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"When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities." »Tom Robbins
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"Consider, and you will find that almost all the transactions of the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing for consulship?yet all these passed away, and are nowhere." »M Aurelius
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"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence." »Brendan Francis Behan
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"When at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each one of us-recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state-our success or failure, in whatever office we may hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions-were we truly men of courage ... were we truly men of judgment ... were we truly men of integrity ... were we truly men of dedication" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it..." »Learned Hand
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"All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"" »Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes"
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"Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love." »Sir Walter Scott
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