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"Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process."
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"It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it."
"God is the King. In him exists all legal authority."
"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."
"Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so."
"It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house."
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"The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy."
"It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it."
"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."
"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive."
"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect."
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