"The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption."

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Source : Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.2, Beard Books

Henry James Sumner Maine

#Taken Quotes #Inquiry Quotes #Assumption Quotes

“I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me!”

Source : "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.
“Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.”

Source : "DNC head: GOP could spark 'chaos'" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. July 27, 2011.
“The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.”
“If you want to be noticed, dress the part.”
“Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.”
“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
“By the late '90s, those who were paying attention perceived the Internet as a 20-foot tidal wave coming, and we are all in kayaks.”
“All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.”

Source : JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1876). “SONGS OF RELIGION AND LIFE”

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