The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business. - Clarence Darrow - Quotesmemo.com

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Clarence Darrow

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Business, Dishonest, Doe, Law, Trust

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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.

Believe, Boy, Funny, Sarcastic, Told

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

Freedom, Liberties, Life And Love, Peace, Protecting

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

Deeper, Feeling, Journey, Make, Men, Pain

To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

Age, Blasphemous, Counsel, Lonely, Love

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Anywhere, Hate, Injustice, Memorial Day, Peace, True

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Orhan Pamuk

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Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents

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Bill Walton

Bill Walton

That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.

Basketball, Crazy, Fun, House, Stuff

Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

Doe, Fiction, Life, Live, Sometimes

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.

Gentleman, Limited, May, People, Planets, Sir

Jupiter Hammon

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

Believe, Cruelly, Pain, Please, Use