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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."
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"It was not the president's responsibility to run a law enforcement operation. It was ours."
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"It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know."
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"I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night."
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"You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote."
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"When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive."
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"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
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"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."
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"As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid."
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"I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master."
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"I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change."
Change
"Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers."
Answers
"I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."
Purpose
"A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction."
Law
"I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal."
Externalization
"If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'"
Music
"Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without."
Poetry
"Only silence perfects silence."
Silence
"Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience."
Experience
"Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone."
Stars
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