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Quotes by Lawyer
"I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one."
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"Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government."
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"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am."
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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
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"The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world."
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"It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis."
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"The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns."
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"I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age."
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"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
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"It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context."
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"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."
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"The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product."
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"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
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"The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer."
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"Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan."
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"Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant."
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"I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again."
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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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"There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua."
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"It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself."
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"I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel."
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"From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress."
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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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"That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other."
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"Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them."
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"Our mandate expects that we will build on the Joint Inquiry's investigation and we will not be re-inventing the wheel. But we go to places which the Joint Inquiry was not permitted to explore."
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"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
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"What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance."
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