"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

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"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

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"The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command."

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"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."

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