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 |  |  | #6361 |  | Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
 -- Montesquieu
 
 |  |  |  | #6362 |  | Texas law forbids anyone to have a pair of pliers in his possession. 
 |  |  |  | #6363 |  | The animals are not as stupid as one thinks -- they have neither doctors nor lawyers.
 -- L. Docquier
 
 |  |  |  | #6364 |  | The Arkansas legislature passed a law that states that the Arkansas River can rise no higher than to the Main Street bridge in Little Rock.
 
 |  |  |  | #6365 |  | The City of Palo Alto, in its official description of parking lot standards, specifies the grade of wheelchair access ramps in terms of centimeters of
 rise per foot of run.  A compromise, I imagine...
 
 |  |  |  | #6366 |  | The difference between a lawyer and a rooster is that the rooster gets up in the morning and clucks defiance.
 
 |  |  |  | #6367 |  | The District of Columbia has a law forbidding you to exert pressure on a balloon and thereby cause a whistling sound on the streets.
 
 |  |  |  | #6368 |  | The judge fined the jaywalker fifty dollars and told him if he was caught again, he would be thrown in jail.  Fine today, cooler tomorrow.
 
 |  |  |  | #6369 |  | The justifications for drug testing are part of the presently fashionable debate concerning restoring America's "competitiveness." Drugs, it has been
 revealed, are responsible for rampant absenteeism, reduced output, and poor
 quality work.  But is drug testing in fact rationally related to the
 resurrection of competitiveness?  Will charging the atmosphere of the
 workplace with the fear of excretory betrayal honestly spur productivity?
 Much noise has been made about rehabilitating the worker using drugs, but
 to date the vast majority of programs end with the simple firing or the not
 hiring of the abuser.  This practice may exacerbate, not alleviate, the
 nation's productivity problem.  If economic rehabilitation is the ultimate
 goal of drug testing, then criteria abandoning the rehabilitation of the
 drug-using worker is the purest of hypocrisy and the worst of rationalization.
 -- The concluding paragraph of "Constitutional Law: The
 Fourth Amendment and Drug Testing in the Workplace,"
 Tim Moore, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, vol.
 10, No. 3 (Summer 1987), pp. 762-768.
 
 |  |  |  | #6370 |  | The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
 -- Anatole France
 
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