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«What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.»
«The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.»
Author: Ben Okri
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acknowledged, coded, dislike, frontiers, legislate, legislated, legislates, legislator, legislators, mysteries, police
«The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.»
Author: David Hume
(Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher)
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Arts and Industries, Arts and Sciences, attainment, beasts, cultivated, exposed, fury, inclemency, legislator, legislators, modeled, ordained, patriots, sciences, societies, The Elements, The Fury, The Lonely
«Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.»
«We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
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enforcement, law enforcement, legislator, legislators, passage
«Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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Poets
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legislator, legislators, unacknowledged
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