“In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law.” YearsLawThreeMillionsFourCrimeIncidentsViolationAnti Semitism Author:Jean-Marie Le Pen
“All genuine progress results from finding new facts. No law can be passed to make an acre yield three hundred bushels. God has already established the laws. It is four us to discover them, and to learn the facts by which we can obey them.” FactsLawThreeResultsFourProgressFindingsHundredGenuineYieldAcres Author:Wheeler McMillen
“Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.” MayLittlesLawThreeBrokenSakeQuartersLaws Of NatureConceitMadmen Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Modern society includes three types of men who can never think very highly of the world--the priest, the physician, and the attorney-at-law. They all wear black, too, for are they not in mourning for every virtue and every illusion?” ThinkingMenWorldLawThreeBlackVirtueModernTypeIllusionMourningPriestsPhysiciansAttorneyModern Society Author:Honore de Balzac
“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.” ThinkingYearsMadeHardSchoolLawChoicesThreeParentDecisionHalfCareersConsciousDecidedUniversityOccupationHarshHalf A YearSchool DaysCareers Choices Author:Lee Kuan Yew
“The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still accused of that. You're still tainted with that brush. I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law'.” YearsStillsHardLawThreeNamesTruth IsTenPushingBrushesAccusedPush YourselfTaintedHunk Author:Jude Law
“It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.” WorldStatesGovernmentFormLawThreeLordDemocracyDemocraticTemperForms Of GovernmentOligarchyAutocracy Author:Aeschines
“The millions of laws which exist for the regulation of humanity appear upon investigation to be divided into three principal categories: protection of property, protection of persons, protection of government. And by analyzing each of these three categories, we arrive at the same logical and necessary conclusion: the uselessness and hurtfulness of law.” PersonsGovernmentLawHumanityThreeMillionsPropertyProtectionConclusionLogicalCategoriesDividedRegulationInvestigationPrincipalAnalyzingUselessness Author:Peter Kropotkin
“The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.” MenMayLawThreeHurtDuesHonestlyEvery Man Author:Aristotle
“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.” PeopleKnowsWayFirstsMeanSaidTwoUseLawThreeFatherTakenDoubtFiguresFieldsHabitAbuseObviousObservationSpeakersQuotationsToilRemarksWhen In DoubtWildeBernard ShawUse And Abuse Author:Nigel Rees
“Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he does not rule for ever.” MenDoeRememberLawThreeRulersThree Things Author:Agathon
“Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality - are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics.” NeedsRealityLawCertainThreePrinciplesConsequenceMathematicsFundamentalsPropertySimplicityPhysicsInteractionMetaphysicalParticlesCriteriaEffectivenessDescribingUnreasonableLaws Of Physics Author:Murray Gell-Mann
“Cut that in Three, which Nature hath made One , Then strengthen hyt, even by it self alone, Wherewith then Cutte the poudred Sonne in twayne, By length of tyme, and heale the woonde againe. The self same Sunne twys yet more, ye must wounde, Still with new Knives, of the same kinde, and grounde; Our Monas trewe thus use by natures Law, Both binde and lewse, only with rype and rawe, And ay thanke God who only is our Guyde, All is ynugh, no more then at this Tyde.” MadeStillsSelfUseLawThreeCuttingLengthKnives Author:John Dee
“Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions.” SchoolFormLawLife IsCertainThreeEnergyProcessPayCarPositionTaxesBenefitsComputerUselessFacultyTransformedQuantityFringeInaccessibleMetabolismThermodynamics Author:Seth Lloyd
“The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful prey of the Feudal Lord from one to three days after their marriage, and from this custom the eldest son of the serf was held as the son of the Lord.... Marquette was claimed by the Lord's Spiritual, as well as by the Lord's Temporal. The Church, indeed, was the bulwark of this base feudal claim.” WellsSpiritualLawThreeChurchKnownLordAtheismSonMarriedClaimsPositive AtheismCustomsCompelledPreyServitudeMarried WomenEldestDishonorableSerfsEldest Son Author:Matilda Joslyn Gage
“I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. By the fourth week, I found it tedious. I got bored and grew restless. I had no other plan for a job, because from seventh grade on, I had planned on law. So I shifted my focus from classes to extracurricular activities.” FirstsSchoolJobsLawThreeFoundInterestingClassFocusPlansWeekGrewActivityBoredGradesFourthRestlessTediousLaw SchoolSeventh GradeExtracurricular Activities Author:Demetri Martin
“We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.” TwoGovernmentLawThreeConstitutionBranchesConsistentBranches Of GovernmentThree Branches Of Government Author:Mike Huckabee
“Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.” StatesGovernmentLawCertainThreeOfficeHighestInstitutionsChosenCouncilGuardianMagistrates Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.” HumansFactsLawSufferingThreeWishSimpleEconomicBehaviorPercentEconomicsInvestingEnvyPhysicsPsychologicalEndeavorCaptureDisorderEconomistLaws Of NatureCapturedPsychological Disorders Author:Andrew Lo
“Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key area. The Law of the Few says that Connectors, Mavens, and Salesman are responsible for starting word-of-mouth epidemics, which means that if you are interested in starting a word-of-mouth epidemic , your resources ought to be solely concentrated on these three groups. No one else matters.” IfsMeanMatterLawThreeGroupsKeysOughtMouthsResourcesAreasResponsibleStartingSalesmanEpidemicsConcentratingWord Of MouthConnectorsMavens Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldYearsFactsJobsLawThreeGivenStuffFourCoachesFour YearsGood JobRecogniseUnspokenGood Coaches Author:Daley Thompson
“We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.” MindMadeHomeFilmLawThreeFatherGenerationsLowsIncludingIn-lawsProfileThree GenerationsFather In Law Author:Mira Nair
“In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.” YearsChildrenMadeAmericaLawYoungThreeWorkAnimalClassCenturyThousandLaborRateCrueltyOppressionFranceIndifferenceThirtyEnlightenedNeglectAbandonedSixtyNineteenth CenturyParentalAnimal CrueltyChild LaborEnglish Law Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin