The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
Larry Niven
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SUNDAY ADELAJA There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth ...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER The days of Larry Mize and Ben Crenshaw winning this thing are over.
JEFF SLUMAN The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value...
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LEGAL MAXIM Ancient custom has the force of law.
LEGAL MAXIM The trodden path is the safest.
LEGAL MAXIM It is fraud to conceal fraud
LEGAL MAXIM He who spares the guilty threatens the innocent
LEGAL MAXIM No cause of action arises from a bare promise
LEGAL MAXIM That which necessity compels she excuses
LEGAL MAXIM Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by it...
LEGAL MAXIM The trodden path is the safest
LEGAL MAXIM Justice is better when it prevents rather than punishes with severity
LEGAL MAXIM The partner of my partner is not my partner
LEGAL MAXIM Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober
LEGAL MAXIM The laws are adapted to those cases which most frequently occur
LEGAL MAXIM He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived
LEGAL MAXIM False in one thing, false in everything
LEGAL MAXIM No man can give what he has not
LEGAL MAXIM No man can make another a debtor against his will
LEGAL MAXIM Ignorance of the law must not prevent the losing attorney from collecting his fee
LEGAL MAXIM A promise against law or duty is void in its own nature
LEGAL MAXIM That is sufficiently certain which can be made certain
LEGAL MAXIM Let a purchaser beware
LEGAL MAXIM Ancient custom has the force of law
LEGAL MAXIM In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy.
LEGAL MAXIM When one divides, the other should have the right of first choice
LEGAL MAXIM Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art
LEGAL MAXIM A public right cannot be changed by private agreement
LEGAL MAXIM What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER One thing i don't understand is sex is legal and selling things is legal but selling sex is illegal.
GEORGE CARLIN The simplest thing to say is that this person is not a lawyer and appears to have no legal training,
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T.S. ELIOT The discipline of not doing something value-destructive to them is a good thing.
BRUNO PAULSON The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Love is the one thing in life that makes everything worthwhile.
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BRYAN WHITMAN It could be someone outside of the legal judicial field like a Larry Thompson, or it could be a sena...
JAY SEKULOW The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
VIN DIESEL We never know what a day will bring us, but one thing we do know is that every morning we can wake u...
ELLEN K. WOOKEY I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is...
URSULA BURNS The most important thing about a man is what he believes in the depth of his being. This is the thin...
HUGH STEVENSON TIGNER Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, o...
BARBARA EHRENREICH Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, o...
BARBARA EHRENREICH It is a sad thing to me that in this world a persons value is measured by the size of their wallet.
HEATHER WOLF Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.
LORETTA NAPOLEONI The greatest thing of all is that he's got super kids on the bench that they can bring in and they c...
EDDIE LLOYD Politics is a good thing!
LARRY J. SABATO Caffeine is a good thing.
MANOJ BHARGAVA The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
MUHAMMAD ALI Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI For God's sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing,...
STEPHEN KING A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is likely that it will never be used as a legal instrument. The most important thing is that when...
RUSSELL ATKINSON I don't like to make predictions, but the only thing I can assure everyone is that we will give our ...
HIGINIO VELEZ What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL One day you will face the hardest decision of your life: to choose the right thing or to choose what...
JOE WOODHEAD We are firm believers in the maxim that, for all right judgment
of any man or thing, it is useful, ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.
SOURCE UNKNOWN If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they b...
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
PLATO Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
DAN BUCATINSKY There is no such thing as a good value for a bad product.
ZACK We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA It is clear that bird flu will bring appalling statistics to the economies. The epidemic must not be...
IGOR SHUVALOV Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.
BRUCE RAUNER I'm a pleaser, but it's not a good thing because you forget about pleasing yourself at the e...
NIKKI BELLA Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of in...
EZRA POUND It all goes to a philosophical difference. It is a philosophical dispute over what is drug court and...
GEORGE COLLINS It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
AESCHYLUS The thing we fear we bring to pass.
ELBERT HUBBARD The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
BERTRAND RUSSELL There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.
MOHNISH PABRAI I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write twe...
BIZ STONE Victory is a thing of the will.
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH Victory is a thing of the will.
MARSHAL FOCH Victory is a thing of the will.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is know...
SHANNON L. ALDER I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack.
PETER BENCHLEY One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
HENRY MOORE The biggest thing is no matter what level I've played at, there is something I can bring to them...
CAT OSTERMAN Any attraction that could bring people here would be a positive thing.
KIRAN PATEL You can’t just bring a regular human here! What if the girl runs and tells the whole world on that...
L. TAYLOR Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Doing the right thing has power.
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LARRY WILMORE Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compa...
LARRY WILMORE Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
LARRY WILMORE I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in conten...
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