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"We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians."
People
"A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment."
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"Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times."
Judges
"Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values."
Values
"However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises."
Values
"Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life."
Life
"To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching."
Act
"It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing."
Business
"There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society."
Society
"Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood."
Time
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