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Quotes by Lawyer
"The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell."
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"I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed."
Job,
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"If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality."
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"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."
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"Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member."
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"I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled."
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"The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines."
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"I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can't say that's the norm."
Will,
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"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."
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"You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something."
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"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."
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"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie."
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"If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it."
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"Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought."
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"Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed."
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"Few rich men own their property; their property owns them."
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"The more liberty you give away the more you will have."
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"The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can be replaced. Foolish policies can be changed. Disastrous mistakes can be reversed."
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"Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared."
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"It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous."
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"It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."
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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
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"Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds."
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"Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession."
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"I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams."
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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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"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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"I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots."
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"Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid."
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