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“When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that “civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.” The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.”

Years Law Used Force Teach Students Battle Peaceful Phrases Resolve Professors Disputes Etiquette Procedures Captured

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.”

Knows School Law Titles Professors Honorable Harvard Law School Harvard Law School

Author:Felix Frankfurter

“Professor Eddington has recently remarked that 'The law that entropy always increases - the second law of thermodynamics - holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of nature'. It is not a little instructive that so similar a law [the fundamental theorem of natural selection] should hold the supreme position among the biological sciences.”

Thinking Should Littles Law Natural Position Increase Fundamentals Supreme Professors Selection Laws Of Nature Natural Selection Theorems Entropy Thermodynamics Biological Science

Author:Ronald Fisher

“Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors ... had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America.”

Source: Fifty Years in the Church of Rome: The Life Story of Pastor Chiniquy, who was for Twenty-five Years a Priest in the Roman Catholic Church

“A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.”

Giving Wells Hands Law Contrary Employment Divinity Professors Commerce Multitudes

Book:The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd