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Quotes by Lawyer
"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."
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"The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify."
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"There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing."
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"To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism."
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"If Republicans want to bring these things up for a vote, I'm letting them know where I stand."
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"The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer."
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"The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again."
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"I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know."
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"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
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"Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time."
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"There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience."
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"Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information."
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"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."
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"Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."
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"We would certainly welcome the recipient nation to put their inspectors on our shores, if they wanted to make that investment to help protect that shipment that is outgoing."
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"I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created."
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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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"The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern."
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"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
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"Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas."
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"When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information."
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"Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter."
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"I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all that, and hold in the clutch of his greed twenty or thirty million of dollars, is past my comprehension. I do not see how he can do it. I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber on the beach, where hundreds and thousands of men were drowning in the sea."
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"I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office."
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"War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory."
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"The religionist is a living fossil, embedded in that rock called faith."
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"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me."
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"Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved."
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"The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything."
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"For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common."
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"If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn."
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