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• It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood
  if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow....
• It is possible to pass laws that control or place limits on people's behavior, but legislation cannot reform human nature.
  Laws cannot change what is in people's hearts and minds....
• We should realize that a city is better off with bad law
  o long as they remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered, that the lack of learning combined with sound common sense is more helpful than the kind of cleverness that gets out of hand, and that as a general rule, states are better governed by the man in the street than by intellectuals....
• There is one right, which man is generally thought to possess, which I am confident he neither does, nor can, posse
  a right to subsistence when his labour will not fairly purchase it....
• To let understanding stop at what can be understood is a high attainment.
  Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. -- Chuang Tse XXIII...
• A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it. BEECHAM
• Some of the most interesting documents from Sweden's middle ages are the old county laws (well, we never had counties but it's the nearest equivalent I can find for "landskap").
  These laws were written down sometime in the 13th century, but date back even down into Viking times....
• If one knows what the task is, and there is a time limit allowed for the completion of the task, then one cannot guess how much it will cost.
• There once was a man who went to a computer trade show.
  Each day as he entered, the man told the guard at the doo...