"Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?"

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Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

Edward Jenks

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“When you have five or six potential hall of famers on your team ... that's when you win penants and championships. The only thing you have to be concerned about is getting the ballplayers to bed on time.”
“All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.”
“I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking that if you're religious, you could be. But you shouldn't be! You can be extremely religious and have your faith and still be open-minded to art. Because this is art. That's part of the excitement. It literally is "The Jerry Springer Show" on-stage set to beautiful operatic music. That's what's so incredible about it!”
“The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.”

Source : FaceBook post by Malcolm Gladwell from Jul 31, 2014
“I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.”
“If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality.”
“I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.”
“Most incredible, however, are the times we know Christ is with us in the midst of our daily, routine lives. In the middle of cleaning the house or driving somewhere in the pick-up, He stops us. . . in our tracks and makes His presence known. Often it's in the middle of the most mundane task that He lets us know He is there with us. We realize, then, that there can be no "ordinary" moments for people who live their lives with Jesus.”

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