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“I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.”

“I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.”

Source: Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.

“Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.”

Law Universe Wealth Thousand Almighty Midas

Book:Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle

Source: Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle

“For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.”

Way Years Hands Law Moral Gone Taken Civilization Thousand Intellectual Bible Species Thousand Years Hand In Hand Cultivation

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.”

Sometimes Shows Government Might Law House Speak Enemy Thousand Protect Army Sacred Property Silent Instance Burning Private Property Invading

Author:Andrew Jackson

“If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.”

Ifs Want Years Littles Two Ideas School Law Fun Bits Can Do Four Worst College Fine Thousand Little Bit Hundred Okay Dollars Debt What You Want Four Years Worst Things Law School

Author:Tucker Max

“Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.”

Character Law Life Is Values Individual Broken Thousand Ideals Gold Genuine Despite Brown Diverse Stamps Mint John Brown

Book:Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second

Source: Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second

“Why do you suppose that in the last 100 years technology has evolved a thousand times further than it has in the last 3,000 years? It's the level of souls that are incarnating. The older Atlantean souls are coming back. They have a natural affinity for communication, electronics, medicine, law and media.”

Years Soul Lasts Law Natural Levels Technology Media Communication Thousand Medicine Ancient Coming Back Affinity Electronics Ancient Egypt Atlantis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay