"For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty."

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Source : Cesare Beccaria (1963). “On Crimes and Punishments”, Pearson College Division

Cesare Beccaria

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“Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.”

Source : "Incoming Presidential Speech: International Society for the Systems Sciences 43rd Annual Meeting" by Peter Corning, complexsystems.org. June 02, 2015.
“Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.”
“I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox”
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”
“Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.”
“The truth is more important than the facts.”

Source : Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier
“Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.”
“I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.”

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