His thinking was that "you had to obey the law, and not what you wanted the law to be, " said Nelson Lund, a George Mason University law professor who worked with Mr. Cooper at the time.

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Sadly, there is no independent referee who can blow a whistle and stop the game, assess a penalty and make you obey the rules.

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To obey Jesus, therefore, you had to join those who were abandoned.

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But for the rest of you who work hard and obey the law and keep your head down and just want to find a way to live legally in a country you consider your own and where you've lived most of your life, let me first apologize for lumping you together with the demanders.

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The key is to realise bubbles do not obey rules, they last much longer than you would ever consider possible.

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Obey the Law of the Land: Take what you need, only what you need, and leave the rest.

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Making ever more complex and power-hungry processors to obey Moore's Law just limits how many chips you can fit in a given space, he said.

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You had to wear this very strange uniform and obey all the rules, and although they fed the children well and gave them a good education, they were so rigid and so strict!

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"You must sacrifice a little self-interest, support the new high school and obey the policy, " says Xiang Caiguo.

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