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“Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.”

Ifs Years Stories Law Order Actors Five Bounds Driven Bored Five Years Format Law And Order Characterless

Author:Chris Noth

“I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by a belief that Muslims can be strong and rich again if they follow the Islamic law severely and in its entirety. This is a response to the trauma of modern Islam.”

Ifs Form Law Belief Strong Rich Modern Draws Response Islam Trauma Driven Traditional Islamic Distinction Entirety Islamic Law

Author:Daniel Pipes

“The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.”

Looks Law Justice Views Practice Study Discipline Valuable Driven Formal Equity Petty Blur Pleading Insincere Truth And Justice Legality

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“I believe that "government", as we know it today, should pull out of most things except for law enforcement and justice, national defense and foreign policy, and let the private sector, a "Grameenized private sector", a social-consciousness-driven private sector, take over their other functions.”

Source: Banker to the Poor: The Autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, Founder of the Grameen Bank

“I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.”

Law House Fun Crazy Reflection Mirrors Mad Historical Driven Customs Meaningless Trapped Irrational Default

Book:Glasshouse

Source: Glasshouse

“life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness.”

Life Law Life Is Half Accepting Mystery Lessons Driven Tragic Heroic Again And Again Helplessness

Book:Measure of My Days

Source: Measure of My Days