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“The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.”

Has Beens Law Interesting Half Brother Nuclear Extras Brothers And Sisters Darling Sibling In-laws Nephew Suffocating Nuclear Families Sister In Law Threesome

Author:Jane Smiley

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

Thinking Years Made Hard School Law Choices Three Parent Decision Half Careers Conscious Decided University Occupation Harsh Half A Year School Days Careers Choices

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch.”

Men Way Would Be Law Numbers Half Groups Car Birth Evidence Men And Women Court Setting Settings Suspects Load Large Numbers Convicts Half Way Birth Place Martial Law

Author:Georges Bernanos

“One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.”

People Said Law Half Yeah Average Distribution Laws Of Nature

Book:Timescape

Source: Timescape

“The Wisconsin senator gets up and says out loud what half of the country is thinking and talks about every day. This President broke the law and lied about it; he trashed the Constitution and hides himself in the flag.”

Thinking Country Law President Half Constitution Get Up Broke Loud Flags Senators Lied Wisconsin

Author:Russ Feingold

“Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe, half the internal troubles that have vexed European States... have arisen from theological differences or from the rival claims of Church and State. This whole vast chapter of debate and strife has remained virtually unopened in the United States. There is no Established Church. All religious bodies are equal before the law, and unrecognized by the law, except as voluntary associations of private citizens.”

“A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics?”

Ifs Two Law Half Break Physics Great Things Laws Of Physics Crumbs

Author:George Carlin

“I do believe that half a dozen commonplace attorneys could so mystify and misconstrue the Ten Commandments, and so confuse Moses' surroundings on Mount Sinai, that the great law-giver, if he returned to this planet, would doubt his own identity, abjure every one of his deliverances, yea, even commend the very sins he so clearly forbade his people.”

People Ifs Believe Law Sin Half Doubt Identity Planets Ten Dozen Commandments Surroundings Giver Moses Commonplace Attorney Deliverance Ten Commandments Sinai

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“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

“Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn't the federal government going after them? Here's one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don't get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don't deliver the eulogies.”

“Conran's Law of Housework - it expands to fill the time available plus half an hour.”

Home Law House Hours Half Available Plus Housework

Book:Superwoman

Source: Superwoman

“Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the Strand, half way between the historic site of Westminster the historic centre of the commercial capital of the world, there began to grow up, in the minds of reformers, the vision of a great and united Supreme Court of Justice, with uniform principles, uniform law, and uniform procedure.”