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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

"The laws of men are not infallible."

"When they say whatever you say may be used against you, they mean it!"

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

"The law. Lady Frances, is an uncertain animal. It has twists and turns that surprise the non-legal mind."

"When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father."

"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."

"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."

"The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion."
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"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."

"I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs."

"The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city."

"It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here."

"So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America."

"Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models."

"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."
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