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Quotes by Lawyer
"The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns."
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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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"Few rich men own their property; their property owns them."
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"The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline.""
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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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"International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples."
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"There's never a good year for immigration reform - that's why it's dragged on ineffectually for decades."
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"The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite."
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"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."
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"You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something."
58
"Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights."
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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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"Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies."
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"We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition."
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"When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution."
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"The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party."
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"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism. If you steal from two, it's research."
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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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"The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries."
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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 do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose."
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"I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something."
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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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"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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"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 focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world."
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"I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again."
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"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."
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