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Quotes by Lawyer
"Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession."
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"And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts."
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"Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne."
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"In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so."
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"The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary."
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"Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No."
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"The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights."
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"If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it."
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."
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"A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good."
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"Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets."
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"The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom."
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"She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public."
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"The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them."
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"I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative."
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"Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever."
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"If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe."
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"We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future."
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"Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point."
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"If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way."
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"With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem."
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"The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more."
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"International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples."
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"Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen."
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"But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it."
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"I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators."
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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 have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them."
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