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"Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69."
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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

"The world is so lawful that not even a single mosquito can touch you, as long as you do not interfere. If your interference stops, everything will stop."

"The jurist is totally unacquainted with the problem of the value of money; he knows nothing of fluctuations in its exchange-value. The naive popular belief in the stability of the value of money has been admitted, with all its obscurity, into the law, and no great historical cause of large and sudden variations in the value of money has ever provided."

"There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders."

"It is unreasonable to expect a known corrupt law enforcement department to uphold your legal rights."

"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
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"I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe."


"So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74."


"So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with."


"And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez."


"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."
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