"Preparation is the be-all of good trial work.……" — Louis Nizer
"Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun."
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21 Quotes by Louis Nizer
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A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
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Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than…
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Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning.…
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Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they…
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A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
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The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there…
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Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.
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A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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