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• Our prejudices - we all have them - are part of our personality structure. The problem is that our prejudices may lie lurking at the bottom of the subterranean mind where the slowly ooze up and color our thinking without our knowing it.

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  Lying, Thinking, Color

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

  Gerry Spence

  Book, School, Doctors

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• The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

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  Meaningful, Money, Lying

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.111, Macmillan

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• Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.

  Gerry Spence

  Love Is, Lovable, Shows

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• I am not as concerned about choosing the right words as I am in letting the words flow naturally.

  Gerry Spence

  Flow, Concerned, Right Words

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• Credibility is what it is ALL about.

  Gerry Spence

  Credibility

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• When any system has for its goal the advancement of the system over the betterment of its individual members, such a system is embedded in slavery.

  Gerry Spence

  Government, Goal, Slavery

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.108, Macmillan

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• There are no rules that say lawyers cannot write or speak from their heart. Passion has never been formally outlawed, although it is a little-known experience among most lawyers and nearly all academicians.

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  Passion, Writing, Heart

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• We are defined by how we use our power.

  Gerry Spence

  Use, Defined

  "The Rat Hole" by Gerry Spence, gerryspence.com. December 25, 2003.

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• Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded - after all, the cop was protecting us.

  Gerry Spence

  Cheer, Hero, House

  "Give Me Liberty! Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century". Book by Gerry Spence, September 15, 1998.

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• Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

  Gerry Spence

  Mind, Prejudice, Locks

  "How to argue and win every time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

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  Devil, Made, Enjoy

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.96, Macmillan

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• The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity.

  Gerry Spence

  Kings, Powerful, Drug

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• When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

  Gerry Spence

  Winning, Justice, Prejudice

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time: At Home, at Work, in Court, Everywhere, Every Day". Book by Gerry Spence, March 1995.

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• I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come. But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.

  Gerry Spence

  Death, Adventure, Superstitions

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.54, Macmillan

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• We have become the new american slaves: but there is a revolution coming. It is a revolution of individual liberty. It will free us without violence. It will begin with the self. It will spread to the workplace. It will turn our corporate masters into our servants. It will free us of government's tyranny. The revolution will spread to all corners of the nation, and at last, we shall be free.

  Gerry Spence

  Government, Self, Liberty

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• The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

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  May, Enjoy

  "Give Me Liberty!". Book by Gerry Spence, 1998.

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• The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.

  Gerry Spence

  Self, Given, Incomparable

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.151, Macmillan

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• We could advance the human race enormously if we but learned to communicate honestly with our neighbors.

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  Race, Neighbor, Communicate

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• The Internet...has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.

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  Voice, America, People

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.318, Macmillan

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• How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?

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  Life, Trinkets, Our Lives

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.250, Macmillan

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• Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.

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  Ideas, America, Long

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• Arguments do not erase prejudice any more than arguments erase scars, whether psychological or physical.

  Gerry Spence

  Prejudice, Scar, Argument

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• The way people move is their autobiography in motion.

  Gerry Spence

  Dance, Moving, Dancing

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• It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

  Gerry Spence

  Justice, Atoms, Anomalies

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