Case Quotes

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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about… — Samantha Power
I was the weirdest kid: I wanted to see the police file - in grade school! I was convinced I could crack the case if… — Alafair Burke
The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law… — Lysander Spooner
No court presumes to tell a jury that they are to try a capital case with the same indifference and unconcern as to consequences, that… — Lysander Spooner
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves… — Mark Twain
Some people feel that others believe in God because they fear death. Why should I fear death if there is no God? There would be… — Angelina Jolie
SAFETY-CLUTCH, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall of an elevator, or cage, in case of an accident to the hoisting apparatus. — Ambrose Bierce
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is… — James Thurber
People Express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudest. — Alfred Kahn
No government really rooted in limited, parliamentary democracy should have the power to make its citizens fight and kill and die in a war they… — Bill Clinton
What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive… — Victor Kiam
Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie. — Stephen Gillers
I understand that forgiveness does not come cheaply. It's something that comes from the heart. And I can just ask the people that were involved… — Unknown Author
FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person --a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose… — Ambrose Bierce
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. So skilled the parson was in homiletics That… — Ambrose Bierce
To me, film right now is dormant. It's a sleeping giant. It's the plaything of corporations. The people who determine what American film is today… — William Friedkin
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be bastards. — Eskimo Proverb
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. — Jack Benny
In any case, if there's information a parolee is using drugs or alcohol, that is definitely something we would like to know. — Unknown Author
As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it… — Sorin Cerin

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