"The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions."

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Source : Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.14, Beard Books

Henry James Sumner Maine

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“I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.”
“There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but youve got to work hard to do it.”
“I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.”
“My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?”
“Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even used words without really knowing what they meant.”
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”

Source : Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.256, UPNE
“I think that painting relates very neatly to inner travel and the exploration of inner worlds. With painting, I always get the impression that you're sort of entering into a shared space.”

Source : Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.

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