Arndt's law

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The principle stating that weak stimuli excite physiological activity, moderately strong stimuli favor it, strong stimuli retard it, and very strong stimuli arrest it.

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Unless there is a court decision that changes our law, we are OK.
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Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.
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A few days later, Bush replied, “We will uphold the law in Florida.”
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To those who agreed with him, Bush pledged that the law against same-sex marriage would remain intact.
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In Israel, however, a new law took effect January 1st that banned the use of underweight models.
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We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.
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He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.
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To Harrison and his wife there was no distinction between the executive and judicial branches of the law.
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Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
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These schools became affiliated Universities, but never equalled the Law University in importance.
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