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- At best-which is to say, even where our knowledge of a case comes to us only through courtroom evidence-it is difficult for the legal process…
- Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case…
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- I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually… — Adam Arkin
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security… — Michele Bachmann
- They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an… — Ginger Baker
- Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse. — Abu Bakr
- It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. — James A. Baldwin
- The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a… — John Adams
- Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them… — Dave Barry
- To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil