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- Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.
- Leone Levi
- The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.
- George Jellinek
- Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.
- Richard Guggenheimer
- A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.
- Chaim Weizmann (1874 - 1952)
- To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental.
- Leopold Stein
- That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.
- Harold Laki
- To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
- Henry Beston
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