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The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law.

— Scott Turow

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

— Grover Cleveland

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

— Floyd Abrams

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

— David E. Kelley

The magic of the American experience is that we've upheld the rule of law for everybody, everybody treated equally beneath the law.

— Paul Gosar

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

— Madame de Stael

The practice of law requires both continuity and growth - a deep understanding of legal principles born of reason, tradition, and experience and tested by time, but also a mind alert to present needs and the future consequences of public and private legal decisions.

— Diane S. Sykes

We want laws to be applied predictably.

— Nancy Gibbs

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

— Junius

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

— Ronald Reagan

The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.

— Douglas Coupland

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