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- There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
- Don Herold
- The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.
- Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
- Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
- Albert Edward Wiggam
- For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact when they can, and the weak grant what they must.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC)
- So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
- Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
- There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not even enough courts too enforce a law not supported by the people.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.
- Robert Orben
- Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.
- Roscoe Pound (1870 - 1964)
- Laws not enforced cease to be laws, and rights not defended may wither away.
- Thomas Moriarty
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