Lawyer Quotes - Page 4

• A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Dream, Humorous

  Further Extracts from Notebooks (1934) p. 27

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• It is the women who are the leaders in change and without their participation poverty can never be removed.

  Ela Bhatt

  Change, Women, Leader

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• Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Inspirational, Wise, Art

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.15, Vintage

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• Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Inspirational, Who I Am, Finding Yourself

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• In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Truth, Struggle, Games

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• The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

  Stanley Fish

  Education, Two Sides, Three

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• Of the Divine character of the Bible, I think, no man who deals honestly with his own mind and heart can entertain a reasonable doubt, For myself, I must say, that having for many years made the evidences of Christianity the subject of close study, the result has been a firm and increasing conviction of the authenticity and plenary inspiration of the Bible. It is indeed the Word of God.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Bible, God, Inspiration

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• I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.

  Hans Frank

  Holocaust, Criminals, Asking

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• A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

  Hugo Grotius

  Family, Leadership, Passion

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• Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Animal

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Life, Vanishing, Seems

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment which should give to a hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.

  Joseph Story

  Real, Government, Giving

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• The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.

  Stephen Breyer

  Fun, Exercise, Advice

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• Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.

  Chris Sacca

  Simplicity, Entrepreneur, Use

  Twitter post from Dec 9, 2014

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• As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically.

  Antonin Scalia

  Law, Long, People

  "'Get over it': Justice Scalia's most memorable quotes" by Bill Mears, www.foxnews.com. February 15, 2016.

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• Don't be afraid of failure. That's not an easy lesson for teenagers - especially teenage girls - to learn. Our society sends us a lot of messages that imply we're supposed to be ashamed when we fall short. But I think we should be throwing each other failure parties!

  Reshma Saujani

  Encouraging, Girl, Teenage

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• Embracing failure is the most important trait I've developed in my career. I have tried to learn from my failures, and I believe it has made me stronger, more confident and more resilient.

  Reshma Saujani

  Confidence, Stay Strong, Believe

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Change, Men, Thinking

  David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1959). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”

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• A person who rejects Christ may choose to say that I do not accept it, he may not choose to say there is not enough evidence.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Religious, Jesus, Acceptance

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• If laws were real they wouldn’t need to be enforced, because if they were real they couldn’t be broken. Try breaking the law of gravity. Now that’s a law. Laws made by man are rules reflecting the current status of his moral codes. As he alters and whittles away his morality, casting bits and pieces aside, his codes change to reflect it.

  Boyd Rice

  Real, Men, Law

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• I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

  Bella Abzug

  Coffee, Identity, Meeting Someone

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  Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.229

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• Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

  Addison Mizner

  Funny, Ignorance, Men

  Oliver Herford, Addison Mizner (1907). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”

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• The trouble with law is lawyers.

  Clarence Darrow

  Law, Feet, Trouble

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• Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

  Washington Irving

  Funny, Business, Humorous

  Washington Irving (1824). “Salmagundi: or, the Whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and others. vol. 1, 2. no. 1-20. 24 Jan. 1807-25 Jan. 1808”, p.212

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