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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
— Warren Christopher
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Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination.…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of…
— Mike Tyson
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I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.
— Ann Richards
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Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.
— Dale Dauten
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
— Thomas More
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public....
— Abraham Lincoln
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Is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America....
— Warren E. Burger
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Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also…
— Adam Brody
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A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.
— Archibald Cox
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Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform…
— John Perry Barlow
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I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.
— Richard Ingrams
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And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the…
— Luke the Evangelist
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Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different.
— Unknown Author
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Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people…
— Richard Dooling
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Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system,…
— Thane Rosenbaum
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Educating Lawyers succeeds admirably in describing the educational programs at virtually every American law school. The call for the integration of the three apprenticeships seems…
— Unknown Author
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A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor…
— Lucille Kallen
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The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see…
— Herbert Hoover
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Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers,…
— Ruben Hinojosa
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My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push…
— George Weinberg
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People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to…
— Mario Cuomo
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The key thing is to ensure that we give the criminal-justice system the tools it needs, so that women's rights are turned into reality. It…
— Jon Kyl
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I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that…
— Muhammad Ali
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Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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