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If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Approximate author period: c. 1887 AD · industrial
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- Luther Burbank
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- Approximate author period: c. 1887 AD · industrial
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Luther Burbank, based on documented lifetime 1849 to 1926. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333419 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333419 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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