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• England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

  Leon Trotsky

  Lasts, England, Revolutionary

  Leon Trotsky (1974). “Collected Writings and Speeches on Britain”

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• Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

  Peter Ustinov

  Courage, Information, Cowardice

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• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  Mae West

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Rain

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• Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

  Patricia Ireland

  Equality, Littles, Food Stamps

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• We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Success, Nature, Congratulations

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• I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Punishment, People, Trials

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• In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

  Dean Kamen

  Technology, Innovation, Important

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• Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

  Vittorio De Sica

  Funny, Envy, Moral

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• In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

  Mario Lopez

  Directors, Casting, Backgrounds

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• Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

  Thurston Moore

  Running, Growing Up, People

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• We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

  Al Sharpton

  Second Chance, Giving, Leader

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• The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

  David Suzuki

  Responsibility, Reality, Social

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• I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.

  O. J. Simpson

  Watches, Littles, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Order, Goal, Consumed

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• I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Successful, Trials, Lost

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• Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

  Henry Mayhew

  Girl, Ballet, Reputation

  Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

  Elton John

  Writing, Mean, Law

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• But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Music, Years, Rendering

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• In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

  Oliver Lodge

  Stronger, May, Demonstration

  Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”

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• It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Horse, Hero

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• I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Years, Trials, Lawyer

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

  Tom Metzger

  Fighting, Europe, Wings

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• African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

  Elijah Cummings

  African American, Female, Aids

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• You watch the Supreme Court in action on these cases, and they are a conflicted court. However, when it comes to speech issues generally, the court has been protective.

  Jay Sekulow

  Issues, Watches, Speech

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• I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

  Kathy Acker

  Thinking, Media, Censorship

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