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Oliver Holmes, Jr.

"The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think."

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Amber Hurdle

"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."

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Amber Hurdle

"As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid."

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Amber Hurdle

"There ought to be a law against necessity."

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Amber Hurdle

"My parents wanted me to go to law school."

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Amber Hurdle

"Any attorney with a conscience always speaks the truth. An attorney can and should practice law in a scrupulous manner, but some dishonest attorneys disregard ethical mandates in order to win. Unethical attorneys shape their clients stories, which is a fancy way of assisting them tell a fib."

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Amber Hurdle

"The law is logical and is based on common sense. The trick was to argue the law in favor of your particular point of view without sounding biased. It was kind of like a magic trick: the best illusionist being the one who can best manipulate the logic to his or her advantage, all the while giving the illusion of impartiality."

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Amber Hurdle

"No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law."

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Amber Hurdle

"Law is a bottomless pit."

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Amber Hurdle

"I was the law and order."

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Amber Hurdle

"Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?"

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."

Wisdom

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."

Responsibility

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions."

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

Wisdom

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"Life is action and passion therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

Life

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."

Law

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so."

Philosophy

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."

Psychology

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."

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Oliver Holmes, Jr.
"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."

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