"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."

Bentham, Jeremy on law and lawyers   

"Every law is an infraction of liberty."

Bentham, Jeremy on law and lawyers   

"Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue."

Bacon, Francis on law and lawyers   

"Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them."

Becker, Ward on law and lawyers
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"No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other."

Arendt, Hannah on law and lawyers   

"Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful."

Anacharsis on law and lawyers
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Whatever you do, don't do it halfway."

Beamon, Bob on excellence   

"One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow."

Brown, Les on excellence
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"The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence."

Ford, Henry on excellence
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"The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else."

Gaberino, Geoffrey on excellence
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"You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do."

Garcia, Jerry on excellence
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"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."

Aristotle on goodness
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"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Lincoln, Abraham on life
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on action
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"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

Alito, Noelie on action
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"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on action
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"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on action
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action."

Aristotle on action
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

Aristotle on action
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"Well begun is half done."

Aristotle on action
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"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."

Aurelius, Marcus on action
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"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."

Auerbach, Red on action
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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

Adams, Henry Brooks on friends and friendship
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"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."

Tagore, Rabindranath on life
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"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."

Tagore, Rabindranath on art
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"No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated."

Tagore, Rabindranath on society
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"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adventure
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"The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest."

Tagore, Rabindranath on truth
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

Tagore, Rabindranath on time
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."

Gandhi, Mahatma on dictators and dictatorship
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself."

Tagore, Rabindranath on laughter
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"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."

Tagore, Rabindranath on freedom
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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