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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."
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"The laws of men are not infallible."
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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
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"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."
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"Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation, manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people."
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"When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father."
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"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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"This extraordinary tale of madness, leading up to Stephen being sectioned off to the lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, also reveals Stephen's eventual fight to win his freedom from the asylum, which saw his legal team mount a successful challenge against the 'criminally insane' label that was keeping him in Broadmoor. Moyle's legal team successfully argued that he was either a criminal or insane, he could not be both."
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"If you let loose a law, it willdo as a dog does. It will obey its own nature, not yours. Suchsense as you have put into the law (or the dog) will be fulfilled.But you will not be able to fulfil a fragment of anything you haveforgotten to put into it."
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"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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"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences."
Creativity
"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."
Society
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
Creativity
"A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions."
Learning
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
Man
"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."
Wisdom
"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
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Life
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
Truth
"Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is."
Philosophy
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