Bernhard Schlink Quotes
What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
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Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.
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I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
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I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.
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All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.
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Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
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What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.
