"Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized weâ€™ve become."

-- D. Todd Christofferson

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“I am going out one door, and shall go through another.”
“For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.”

Source : W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.352, Courier Corporation
“For me, punk is about real feelings. It's not about, 'Yeah, I am a punk and I'm angry.' That's a lot of crap. It's about loving the things that really matter: passion, heart and soul.”
“You know, there's a growing level of disenchantment with governing institutions in Brazil. And in a sense, it's a healthy development because you have investigators and prosecutors going to work and finding out these things and revealing them to the public. But as a result, you have a lot of growing distrust in the way that government functions in Brazil.”
“She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.”
“It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.”
“Everyone who ever walked barefoot into his child's room late at night hates Legos.”
“I'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important.”

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