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Quotes by Lawyer
"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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"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head."
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"There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision."
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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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"History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history."
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"As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed."
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"From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada."
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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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"Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds."
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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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"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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"Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains."
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"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think."
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"The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him."
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"This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent."
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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."
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"In the end, the Foreign Ministry had no power at all to do anything."
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"This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI."
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"I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight."
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"Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I."
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"The ambassador was never present, but his presence was never absent."
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"We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The Washington Post asking about interviews."
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"There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences."
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"When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession."
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"I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid."
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"In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other."
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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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