It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own … - John Adams

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The majority of men. . . are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and. . . are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

John Adams

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

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The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.

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It will be celebrated. . . with pomp and parade. . . bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.

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We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

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The reason Vladimir Putin released Pussy Riot, the Greenpeace activists who were kidnapped in international waters and kept in prison for two months, and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia's best-known and longest-serving political prisoner, was because he finally started panicking and realized that he may not have anyone to take pictures with.

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David Berg

The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but that doesn't mean you can't have meat and drink in the Kingdom!

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Arthur Schopenhauer

The majority of men. . . are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and. . . are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

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Juliet Stevenson

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.

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Noah Baumbach

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

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