License Quotes - Page 19

• I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.

  Lenny Bruce

  Scams, Gigs, Miami

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• More importantly, the Court forgets that ours is a government of laws and not of men. That means we are governed by the terms of our laws, not by the unenacted will of our lawmakers. 'If Congress enacted into law something different from what it intended, then it should amend the statute to conform to its intent.' In the meantime, this Court 'has no roving license ... to disregard clear language simply on the view that ... Congress 'must have intended' something broader.

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Men, Views

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• I was born the day I got my license. When I was a kid, if I wanted to go somewhere and see things, you have to get in your car and actually go.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Car, Born

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• When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Degradation, Corruption, Spirals

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• Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Men, Mind

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