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"Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so."

"Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years."

"I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide."

"Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something."

"So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this?"

"We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that."

"By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties."
Explore more quotes by Henry Miller

"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life."

"You can forgive a young cunt anything. A young cunt doesn't have to have brains. They're better without brains. But an old cunt, even if she's brilliant, even if she's the most charming woman in the world, nothing makes any difference. A young cunt is an investment; an old cunt is a dead loss. All they can do for you is buy you things. But that doesn't put meat on their arms or juice between their legs."

"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

"1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring."3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.4) Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!5) When you can't create you can work.6) Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.7) Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.8) Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure."

"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."

"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs."

"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

"Literature coming from the cold corpse of a whore is the last thing to be served in bed."
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