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Quotes by Lawyer
"No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government."
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"Let us forget that we are Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians, or Free-thinkers, and remember only that we are men and women. After all, man and woman are the highest possible titles. All other names belittle us, and show that we have, to a certain extent, given up our individuality, and have consented to wear the collar of authority-that we are followers. Throwing away these names, let us examine these questions not as partisans, but as human beings with hopes and fears in common."
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"There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it."
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"Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other."
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"If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way."
Now,
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"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined."
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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 test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes."
Job,
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"There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide."
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"Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged."
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"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."
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"A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that."
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"As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race."
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"In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens."
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"If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work."
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"There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together."
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"As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected."
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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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"No one, in the world's whole history, ever attempted to substantiate a truth by a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of miracle. Nothing but falsehood ever attested itself by signs and wonders. No miracle ever was performed, and no sane man ever thought he had performed one, and until one is performed, there can be no evidence of the existence of any power superior to, and independent of nature."
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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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"I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion."
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"The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real."
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"The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do."
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