Clauses Quotes

• A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.

  George Herbert

  Law, Rooms, Action

  'The Elixir', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.

  Frank I. Cobb

  Freedom, Rights, People

  La Follette's Weekly Magazine, 1920.

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• In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.

  Francois Rabelais

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• Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Perspective, Sound, Language

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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• It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.

  James Madison

  Government, Abuse, Negative

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• Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Dream, Believe, Believe In Yourself

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• The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.

  Michael Kinsley

  Fifth Amendment, Protection, Amendments

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• In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

  Ken Calvert

  Law, Abortion, Training

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• Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Inspiring, Christmas, Dream

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• I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Thinking, Motorcycle, Looks

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• There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause

  Cass Sunstein

  Requirements, Protection, Equal

  "What Clause? Where?" by Bradford Plumer, www.motherjones.com. October 20, 2005.

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• It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

  Michael Kinsley

  Equality, Would Be, Recipes

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• Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions

  Hjalmar Branting

  Taken, Years, League

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• I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members

  Elliott Smith

  Leaving, Paws, Bears

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• The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

  Fredric Jameson

  War, Home, Writing

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

  Harold H. Greene

  Lying, Real, Independent

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• Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

  William J. Brennan

  Fundamentals, Use, Fairness

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• The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

  William J. Brennan

  Punishment, Principles, Purpose

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• And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.

  Jean M. Auel

  Couple, Reading, Different

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• If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

  Charles Morgan

  School, Years, Law

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• I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Sports, Pick Me Up, Figure Skating

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• When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

  Leonard Maltin

  Sentimental, Santa, Kind

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• The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.

  F. L. Lucas

  Mind, Lasts, Facts

  F. L. Lucas (2012). “Style: The Art of Writing Well”, p.17, Harriman House Limited

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• The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

  Byron White

  Law, Choices, Morality

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• The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Government, Community, Political

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