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Quotes by Lawyer
"So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are."
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"Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid."
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"After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion."
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"The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign."
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"Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies."
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"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."
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"Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science."
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"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
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"The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see."
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"I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves."
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"I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves."
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"The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent."
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"If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur."
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"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
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"I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world."
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"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed."
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"I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it."
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"That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward."
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"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."
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"I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest."
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"The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party."
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"Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it."
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"CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court."
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"In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it."
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"I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well."
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