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"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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"All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way."

"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."

"Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young."

"As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box."

"Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record."

"I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman."

"Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment."
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"Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood."


"Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times."


"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."


"There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society."


"Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America."


"We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians."


"There can be no assumption that today's majority is "right" and the Amish and others like them are "wrong." A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different."


"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."
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