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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."

"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."

"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."

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

"The law is logical and is based on common sense. The trick was to argue the law in favor of your particular point of view without sounding biased. It was kind of like a magic trick: the best illusionist being the one who can best manipulate the logic to his or her advantage, all the while giving the illusion of impartiality."

"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."

"HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There arefour kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, andpraiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slainwhether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is foradvantage of the lawyers."
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"The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe."

"I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off."

"There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6."

"Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science."

"Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist."

"Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map."
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