Adam Cohen Quotes
Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
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Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.
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Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
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Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.
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We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
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We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
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This again, led judges and lawyers to insist on the importance of possession, or seisin, as evidence and presumptions of title, and thus to give to the seisin of land that unique importance in English land law which it has ever been held.
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It's a bit disturbing to me that people have to evolve to the idea that people are equal.
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The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.
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I sort of went into the TV thing kicking and screaming.
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In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more than happy to define and enforce their own private property interests according to their own subjective rules.
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Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
