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"It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true."

"The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries."

"We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on."

"Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge."

"The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage."

"The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing."

"I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well."

"That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other."

"Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up."
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"A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable."

"You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out."

"In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along."

"The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will."

"If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless."

"If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility."

"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all."
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