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«Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.»
Author: A. P. Herbert
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«How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and suffering right through the years, should now operate here to give me a fair and open trial?....consider myself neither morally nor legally obliged to obey laws made by a Parliament in which I am not represented. That the will of the people is the basis of the authority of government, is a principle universally acknowledged as sacred throughout the civilized world.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Discrimination
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«To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong»
«A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Right
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disarmed, disarming, disarms, holds, legal, legally, legal right, monopolies, Monopoly, physical, physical force, rights, the threat of, threat, victims
«If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| About:
Football
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declared, football game, Football games, games, legally, row, watches
«Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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consists, legally, married, moralities, morality, Other People, People of, suspecting
«It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.»
«Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Poverty
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declared, estate, estates, Good Thing, insane, legally, seventies, seventy
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