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Quotes by Lawyer
"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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"No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling."
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"Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change."
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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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"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"
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"When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group."
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"Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests."
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"A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze."
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"If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics."
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"Teaching civility is an obligation of the family."
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"Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether."
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"That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other."
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"The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's "Nightline.""
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"It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea."
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"Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day."
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"The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out."
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"The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them."
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"I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative."
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"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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"The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not."
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"When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory."
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"The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for."
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"No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe."
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"I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules."
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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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"History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history."
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"I can understand Communism, but not Socialism."
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"If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce."
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"One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you."
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"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers."
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