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"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."
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"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics."
"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."
"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."
"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."
"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."
"What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death."
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"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."
"I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework."
"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."
"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."
"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."
"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."
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