The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.
However, for story reasons, we needed to represent them in certain ways. One of the things that sort of blew me away that I didn't know when we started is that memories are completely susceptible to change. And this is, you know, one of the many reasons why certain people are trying to get it taken out - eyewitness testimony in court cases because it's very unreliable.
But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
I have 2 million Twitter followers. Some of those people are also yogis and activists and people who really go out and make a difference. I do as much as I can with my voice. It's effortless in some cases. I try to remind everybody that they have that kind of voice.
How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.
In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it
In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases theyre not.
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.
I often get too emotionally involved in my cases.
This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.
I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.
You are only allowed to treat the content of your intuition as evidence if the intuition stays after you have exposed it to cognitive psychotherapy; in some cases you have to reject it even if it does indeed stay.
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.
To me, cases like that really scream out, 'Hey, it's not out there. It's in here. ' There's no indication that this mother is prone to raise very feminine boys because his twin is not that way.
In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.
When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.