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The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
John Bates Clark
Worth
Law
Result
Practice
Pay
Market
Case
Give
Individual
Tends
Studied
How
Wage
Question
Laborer
Accurately
May
Dishonest
Working
Last
Honest
This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and in the territory of nations that threaten it, which is in accordance with international law.
John Boehner
Law
Says
Borders
Inside
Threaten
Both
Simply
Operations
Territory
Israel
Accordance
Itself
Conducting
Nations
Which
International
International Law
Right
Defend
Resolution
The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.
John Bright
Law
Corn
Price
Quarter
Intended
Wheat
Keep
Now
I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school.
John C. Reilly
Me
Business
Law
School
Father
Job
Thought
Lawyer
Big
Every
Considered
Kid
Jobs
Law School
About
Having
Had
Priest
Dawned
Him
Parts
Without
Becoming
Go
Years
Lot
Get
Different
Working
Fun
Actor
Four
Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
John Carmack
Nature
Law
Clever
Later
Extremely
Moore
Some
Point
Merely
Because
Years
Anything
Graphics
Competent
Number
Programmer
If it weren't for Moore's law changing the playing field continuously, I would have been long gone. The rapid pace of hardware evolution still keeps things fresh for me.
John Carmack
Me
Law
Long
Field
Gone
Changing
Evolution
Rapid
Moore
Would
Long Gone
Fresh
Still
Were
Been
Continuously
Pace
Keeps
Things
Hardware
Playing
Playing Field
Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
John Cusack
Death
You
Business
Law
Gun
Seven
Insane
Kind
License
Totally
Through
Driver
Takes
Days
Pass
Go
Get
Same
Where
Screening
Even
Why
My strongest hope is for a cameo as a band playing in a club visited by the detectives on 'Law & Order: SVU' during the course of an investigation, maybe during sound check, or something, so they can force us to stop playing while they question the sound guy.
John Darnielle
Hope
Law
Band
Club
Visited
Detectives
Strongest
Something
Guy
Investigation
Check
Force
Course
Sound
Cameo
Question
Maybe
Stop
Order
While
Us
Playing
The United States has the world's largest and most innovative economy, an unmatched rule of law, and a free market that is the envy of the international community. For investors, we are the reserve currency.
John Delaney
World
Law
Envy
Free
Community
Market
Innovative
Rule
Rule Of Law
States
Unmatched
Free Market
Investors
Economy
Most
Currency
International
International Community
Reserve
United
United States
Largest
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
John Dryden
Law
First
Prerogative
Last
There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.
John Edwards
Life
Regret
Law
Will
Responsibility
Rest
My Life
Pain
Others
Having
No Question
Take
Wrong
Caused
Question
Did
Done
Break
Full
Harm
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy
War
Age
World
Law
Mass
Self-Determination
Prefer
Extermination
World War
The first thing we need is for President Obama to finally enforce current immigration law and strengthen our borders. To take up any other agenda is bad policy for the American people and bad politics for Republicans.
John Fleming
Politics
People
Immigration
Law
First
Other
President
Our
President Obama
Finally
Immigration Law
Bad
Obama
Borders
Take
Policy
First Thing
Up
American
Current
Any
The First Thing
Republicans
Agenda
American People
Enforce
Thing
Strengthen
Need
It's all about secular unionism, the advancement of atheism, which they even tried to create in this law - Democrats did - an atheistic chaplaincy.
John Fleming
Law
Secular
Atheism
Tried
About
Advancement
Democrats
Did
Which
Create
Unionism
Even
I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.
John Fund
Vision
Law
Focus
Think
Rule
Rule Of Law
More
Democrats
Often
Hold
Republicans
Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.
John George Nicolay
Law
John
Entrance
Stuart
New
Major
Removal
Period
Partnership
Lincoln
His
Salem
Begin
Career
I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.
John Grisham
Law
Problems
Enjoy
Honestly
Other
Sold
Books
Say
Out
About
Give
Rather
Magnifying
Miss
Messages
Mixed
Hand
Off
Office
May
While
Them
Working
Profession
Watching
That's the best way to practice law, is writing about it and not having to be in the courtroom!
John Grisham
Best
Writing
Law
Practice
Way
Best Way
About
Having
Courtroom
Got to build that business base and then you can fund all the things people want: education, health care, strong law enforcement, roads, bridges, infrastructure - all those things flow from that economic base.
John Hoeven
Education
Health
You
Business
People
Strong
Law
Care
Build
Those
Law Enforcement
Economic
Roads
Health Care
Got
Want
Infrastructure
Then
Enforcement
Bridges
Base
Fund
Things
Flow
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
John Jay Hooker
Law
Advice
Congress
Bench
President
Having
Put
Him
Without
Pass
Itself
Inferior
Officers
Senate
Authority
Sending
Plain
Them
Consent
One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.
John Lescroart
Life
Writing
Law
Word
Job
Law Firm
Had
Part-Time
Firm
Most
Until
Also
Times
Often
While
Worked
Working
Productive
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
Early
Night
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
John Marshall
Nature
Rights
Law
Those
Absolute
Divest
Repeal
Contract
Vested
Cannot
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.
John Marshall
Nature
Rights
People
Law
Considered
Those
Must
Only
Absolute
Divest
Powers
Within
Repeal
Contract
Vested
Conferred
Cannot
Them
Agents
Act
Acts
The most astonishing subset of the Deep Web is a collection of dark alleys called the Dark Web. The Dark Web is generally thought of as a collection of criminal elements intent on subverting the law, stealing our money, and possibly kidnapping our daughters.
John McAfee
Money
Dark
Law
Thought
Criminal
Our
Astonishing
Kidnapping
Possibly
Collection
Web
Stealing
Alley
Daughters
Generally
Most
Intent
Deep
Elements
When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.
John Mica
Law
Country
Employees
Important
Become
Believe
Consider
Airport
Would
More
Impersonal
Never
Soon
Envisioned
Provided
Huge
Provision
Bureaucracy
Established
Which
Across
Grow
Grown
Utilizing
Larger
I've seen most of the major, important shows, but I watch them all at once, like movies, so my TV relationships are still with shows like 'Law And Order: SVU,' 'Shark Tank,' and HGTV.
John Mulaney
Law
Seen
Important
Relationships
Once
TV
Law And Order
Shark
Major
Like
Most
Still
Tank
Order
Movies
Them
Shows
Watch
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