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Evidence Law
Evidence Law Evidence Law in the United States The Evidence Law entries and resources of the Encyclopedia of Law provides coverage of all evidence federal and state rules, with expert analysis and links to related cases. Changes to this area of law have implications for attorneys in every practice area, making the Evidence Law entries…
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Construction Law
Construction Law One source for in-depth analysis, forms and practice tips to best represent any or all parties involved in a construction project. The Encyclopedia of Law covers it all—bidding, drafting contracts, financing and litigating construction disputes. It offers detailed guidance and pertinent forms on such timely issues as determining liability and attaching liens. Whatever…
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Patents and Inventions
Quotations on patents and inventions Quotations on Predicting value of inventions Computers “Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” –Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” –Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 “I have traveled the length and…
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Labor
Labor Quotes List of Quotes about Labour: Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. (KARL MARX, Capital) Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more. (LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life)…
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Higher Circles
Higher Circles “The men of the higher circles are not representative men; their high position is not a result of moral virtue; their fabulous success is not firmly connected with meritorious ability. Those who sit in the seats of the high and the mighty are selected and formed by the means of power, the sources…
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Language
“Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on…
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Indefensible
Indefensible “In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and…
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Ethics
“All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. His instincts prompt him to compete for his place in the community, but his ethics prompt him also to cooperate (perhaps in order that there may be a place to compete for). The…
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Media
“Today the methods are different—now it’s not the threat of force that ensures the media will present things within a framework that serves the interests of the dominant institutions, the mechanisms today are much more subtle. But nevertheless, there is a complex system of filters in the media and educational institutions which ends up ensuring…
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Anecdotes
“How many anecdotes? Where did this all start? What is this about? I don’t know when it started, but I know when it got bad, really bad. It got bad under Ronald Reagan, who had a very active fantasy life. … He was convinced that he did things in the Second World War that he…