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The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Bertolt Brecht
Alone
Law
Made
Naked
Exploitation
Those
One Thing
Obeying
Misery
Understand
Who
Thing
Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.
Al Green
People
Some People
Believe
Rules
Those
Obeying
Some
Fairness
It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made a demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand. I was quite tired after spending a full day working.
Rosa Parks
Day
Tired
Made
Spending
Obeying
Driver
Feel
Demand
Like
His
Quite
Just
After
Happened
Working
Full
I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.
Alice Walker
Terrorism
Father
Mind
White
Too
Frame
Out
Must
Obeying
Something
Segregation
Could
He
Taken
Feels
Like
Know
Look
Because
Said
South
Up
Person
Just
Middle
Just Because
Grew
Mean
Your
Night
Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.
George Shearing
Mind
Whatever
Think
Bass
Harmony
Easier
Wilson
Obeying
Laws
Come
Without
Said
Line
Any
While
Little
Much
Your
Little While
Play
Teddy
I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
Iggy Pop
Mom
Better
School
Free
Rules
Out
High
Running
Obeying
High School
Term
Like
House
Got
Normal
Accordance
Normal Person
Conduct
Person
Lack
Just
Moved
Then
Your
Mom And Dad
Who
Dad
Started
A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
J. D. Hayworth
Fashion
People
Obey
Think
Would
Obeying
Laws
Could
New
Fair
Makes
Question
Existing
Any
Us
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
John Yoo
War
Legal
Obey
Protection
Lost
Claim
Responsible
Status
Wearing
Obeying
Laws
Structure
Had
POW
Failing
Taliban
Command
Conduct
Conventions
While
Uniforms
Fighters
Standards
Initial
Regulatory failings mean that the cost of breaking the law is far below that of obeying it - businesses are happier to pay fines than to control pollution.
Ma Jun
Law
Control
Pay
Obeying
Fines
Cost
Failings
Than
Pollution
Happier
Breaking
Mean
Far
Regulatory
Businesses
Below
When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Challenges
Animal
Intelligence
Signs
Animals
Understanding
Distinguish
Kind
Tricks
See
Obeying
Seeing
Some
Remarkable
Simply
Between
Talented
Come
Know
How
Real
Doing
Tests
Commands
Up
Just
Biggest
Biggest Challenges
Researchers
Deeper
Things
Two
The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.
Paul Ricoeur
Law
Relation
One Aspect
Obeying
More
Imperative
Between
Concrete
Encompassing
Commanding
Than
Much
Aspect
Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.
Roscoe Conkling
Win
Country
Party
Own
Conviction
State
Dare
Obeying
Rise
My Own
Propose
Never
Firm
Firm Conviction
New
Instructions
Also
Nomination
Behalf
York
New York
Which
Republican
Republican Party
Grandly
Should
Expressing
Disregard
My inability to follow recipes as written - without obeying the devil on my shoulder telling me to replace ingredients or change the temperature - is well documented.
Samin Nosrat
Me
Change
Devil
Recipes
Telling
Temperature
Follow
Obeying
Written
Well
Documented
Without
Replace
Inability
Ingredients
Shoulder
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