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"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."

Scott Turow, American Novelist

Legal, People, Being, Talk

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"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."

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"Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved."

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"It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents."

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"One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York."

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

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"People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller."

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