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Quotes by Lawyer
"Come here immediately and see if you can find the murderer of the President."
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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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"Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning."
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"What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt."
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"I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States."
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"Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues."
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"If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless."
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"In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office."
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"I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna."
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"It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly."
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"And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals."
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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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"My daughter is in the lawsuit because you need that for standing."
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"And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it."
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"If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn."
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"When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution."
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"Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked by children."
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"No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe."
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"The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see."
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"Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick."
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"Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson."
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"Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information."
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"Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change."
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"The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite."
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"It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible."
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"Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people."
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"We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays."
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"Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle."
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"Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I."
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"From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada."
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