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"Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger."

"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."

"It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men."

"Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured."

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."

"Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought."
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"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal."

"Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants."

"We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that."

"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."

"When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public."
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