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Quotes by Lawyer
"Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone."
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"In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it."
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"I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure."
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"Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth."
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"The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character."
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"Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed."
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"History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history."
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"Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration."
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"In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything."
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"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed."
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"Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason."
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"The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one."
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"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."
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"Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart."
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"We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free."
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"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."
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"There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it."
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"Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay."
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"Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other."
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"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene."
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"With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers."
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"Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt."
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"A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country."
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"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
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"I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well."
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"Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history."
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"But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants."
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"But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes."
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