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Benjamin Disraeli
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When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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Ronald Reagan
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We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (On dismissing 12,000 striking air traffic controllers)
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Abraham Lincoln
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Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.
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Pope Pius XI
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Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
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Plato
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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Robert Francis Kennedy
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Laws can embody standards; governments can enforce laws--but the final task is not a task for government. It is a task for each and every one of us. Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted--when we tolerate what we know to b
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Michel de Montaigne
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Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardl
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Hermann Hesse
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...each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden - forbidden for him. It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet.
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Pythagorus
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As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
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Otto von Bismark
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Christopher North
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Laws were made to be broken.
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Publilius Syrus
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He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
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Lao Tzu
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The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Saville
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Women have more strengths in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power in their tears than we have by our arguments.
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Edward Gibbon
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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
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David Gerrold
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Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
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GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 386.
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Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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Danish proverb
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Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature
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George Bernard Shaw
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
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TICKELL: _On the Death of Mr. Addison,_ Line 41.
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Just men, by whom impartial laws were given; And saints who taught and led the way to heaven.
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HERBERT: _The Elixir._
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Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine.
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John Morley
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Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
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Aeschylus
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'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
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Charles Robert Darwin
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.
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POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 207.
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
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Frank Zappa
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The United States is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced.
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Vladimir Lenin
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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
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Douglas Adams
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
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Henry David Thoreau
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saints' Tragedy,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.
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Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
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Christine Lane
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Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Michel de Montaigne
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Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.???
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy.
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H Hahn Blavatsky
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Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.
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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
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Kahlil Gibran
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The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.
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DRYDEN: _Conquest of Granada,_ Pt. i., Act i., Sc. 1.
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I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Albert Einstein
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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John Quincy Adams
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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
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Nicholson
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Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.
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Laertius Diogenes
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Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
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Truman Capote
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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
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Francis Bacon
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Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
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POPE: _Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton._
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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
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Harry S Truman
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It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
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Ronald Reagan
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It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
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Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should b
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.
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Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
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"The planes are governed by laws. Laws can be learned."
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Better no law than laws not enforced.
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I didn't write those laws. I like them even less than you do.
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The more laws, the less justice.
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Customs are more powerful than laws.
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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There are laws for everything except the harm families do.
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Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break.
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
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Good laws have their origins in bad morals.
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Go tell the Spartans,
Passerby,
That here, obedient to their laws,
We lie.
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As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
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Be careful in revising those immigration laws of yours.
We got careless with ours.
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Helmet laws interfere with natural selection.
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Chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws.
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The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
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If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.
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Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
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Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
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If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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States should have the right to enact... laws...particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution.
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Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
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Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
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Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
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Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.
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However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. He
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.
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Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obe
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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"Young lady, in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamnics" -Homer
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"Ye canna change the laws of physics, Cap'n!" -- Scotty
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"Good men must not obey the laws too well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"People who are very beautiful make their own laws." Vivian Leigh
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"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!" - Homer to Lisa
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"Pike it, berk! I'm Thor's proxy, and your laws don't apply to me."
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