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- #3533. The law disregards trifles.
- California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
- #3535. Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best.
- California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
- #3528. The law respects form less than substance.
- California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"
- Politics: "The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- #1597. Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.
- California Civil Code, "Object of a Contract"
- Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.
- An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation.
- Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933
- If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
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- There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Cogito ergo spud. - I think, therefore I yam
- Graffito, reported by Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 1980
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