Thomas Mesereau (Thomas Arthur Mesereau Jr.) Quotes
The witnesses who testified before the grand jury were never subjected to cross-examination or impeachment by the defense
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
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Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.
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Those things that are most dear cannot be drowned - the grooves and the second line, the way you feel inside when you hear Professor Longhair. Even when you're sitting down, that's in you.
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One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.
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My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told me that, "I was the best," and it helped me so much.
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But it struck him that people are not really dead until they are felt to be dead. As long as there is some misunderstanding about them, they possess a sort of immortality.
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I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.
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If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
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Oh these mathematicians make me tired! When you ask them to work out a sum they take a piece of paper, cover it with rows of A's, B's, and X's and Y's ... scatter a mess of flyspecks over them, and then give you an answer that's all wrong!
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Those who show off do not shine.
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People often say very, very nice, complimentary things. But I think it's better if you don't take that too much to heart.
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The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.
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A lot of God-loving people think that killing people who don't agree with them is OK.
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Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
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Wipe out the entire defense potential remaining to the Soviets.
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When my wife and I met, I couldn't talk to her - and my defense mechanism is sarcasm. I belittle someone with verbal pokes and prods. I did it to her out of complete awe. When friends introduced us, I said 'Hi' - and turned my back. Later, I called my mom and best friend and said, 'I think I just met my wife.'
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The witnesses who testified before the grand jury were never subjected to cross-examination or impeachment by the defense
