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• A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Justice, Criminals, Guilty

  "Casey Anthony: The System Worked" by Alan Dershowitz, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 7, 2011.

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• All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Two Sides, Want, Sides

  "U.S. News & World Report", August 9, 1982.

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• Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Doubt, Criminals, Morality

  "Casey Anthony: The System Worked" by Alan Dershowitz, www.wsj.com. July 7, 2011.

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• Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.

  Al Franken

  Believe, College, Popular Vote

  Al Franken (2004). “Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, p.9, Penguin

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• Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Beginners, Poet

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• A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Humor, Foxes

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• As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

  Charles de Gaulle

  One Day, France, Rendering

  Charles de Gaulle (1964). “The complete war memoirs of Charles de Gaulle”

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• Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well.

  Martin Gore

  Errors, Mind, Trial And Error

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• I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.

  Jane Green

  Children, Husband, Grateful

  "Christie Brinkley: Not My American Sweetheart" by Jane Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2008.

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• The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Success, Peace, Freedom

  United Nations Bulletin Vol. XVI, No. 4, February 15, 1954.

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• Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

  Levon Helm

  Song, Errors, Play

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• Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

  Matthew Henry

  Punishment, Grace, Affliction

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Book of Job - Complete Bible Commentary Verse by Verse”, p.188, Editora Dracaena

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• The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

  Evander Holyfield

  Stories, Way, Testing

  "'Mama's whippings meant I didn't wind up like Tyson'". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2008.

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• The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

  Herbert Hoover

  Night, Errors, Pauses

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• A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

  Kim Jong Il

  Fear, Struggle, Mean

  Chŏng-il Kim, Jong Il Kim (1989). “The Present Times and the Tasks Facing Young People: Talk to the Senior Officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, October 12, 1988”

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• The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

  LaToya Jackson

  Art, Mean, Guilty

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• It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case.

  Bill James

  People, Radio, Facts

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• It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

  Shawn Johnson

  Girl, Training, Strange

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• This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Lynching, Law

  "The Michigan Alumnus". Book by University of Michigan Alumni Association, p. 28, 1996.

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• When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Ambitious, Males, Female

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• I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Mistake, Smart, Fire

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• The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

  John Legend

  Reality, Fire, Play

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• Our ancestors are totally essential to our every waking moment, although most of us don't even have the faintest idea about their lives, their trials, their hardships or challenges.

  Annie Lennox

  Ideas, Challenges, Essentials

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• The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

  Carl Lewis

  Courage, Challenges, World

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• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Army, Blue

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.16, Fordham Univ Press

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