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“It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.”

Believe Law Difficult Als Gore Oblivious

Author:Barbara Olson

“Unless we repeal the illegal Byrd amendment, American exports will be vulnerable to retaliation, and the U.S. will continue to face a difficult task convincing other countries to make their laws comply with international rules.”

Country Faces Law Difficult Tasks International Vulnerable Illegal Amendments Other Countries Convincing Retaliation Difficult Tasks Convincing Others

Author:Jim Ramstad

“But spirituality, it seems to me, when answering the question, "Why should I be good? Why should I care for others?" says, "Because that is the best, most fulfilling way to live" Whether or not you receive an award or a payment is incidental. You are good and kind and loving because it is right, even though it is difficult sometimes. It fulfills the highest law, to treat others as we wish to be treated.”

Way Should Kind Sometimes Seems Care Law Spirituality Wish Difficult Highest Treats Be Good Treated Awards Should I I Care Fulfilling Payment Way To Live

Author:Philip Gulley

“When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably) as a rhetorical device. Such cases do not function as speculations in the pejorative sense - as silly stories that provide insight into complex mechanisms - but rather as idealized illustrations to exemplify a difficult point of theory. (Other fields, like philosophy and the law, use such conjectural cases as a standard device.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.”

Ifs Law Difficult Working It

Author:Eric Schmidt

“I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.”

People Light Law Suffering Difficult Atheism Tasks Agree Positive Atheism Educated Priests Amusement Corn Denominations Difficult Tasks

Author:Richard Cobden

“Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.”

Long Running Law Difficult Effort Family Members Complaining Circles Long Runs Conform Preference Family Life Unwritten Personal Preferences

Book:A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing

Source: A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing

“Given the scope of these programs, it's understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what's difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation's enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

People Would Be Law Motivation Given Nations Difficult Enemy Issues Protect Concerned Program Related Privacy Scope Nsa

Author:Mitch McConnell

“There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don’t solve any problem because they’re so one of a kind.”

World Kind Problem Law Difficult Powerful Cases Definitions Solve Phrases Fascinating Exception One Of A Kind Bad Laws

Author:Malcolm Gladwell