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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Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in the brook; The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers; The song of birds amid the bowers; The crystal of the azure seas; The music of the southern breeze; And, over all, the blessed sun, Telling of halcyon days begun.
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She lifted her head. "It's easier," she said, slowly, "to be angry on someone else's behalf than on my own. And yet I find I have a well of anger in me, that I have been filling for years from my own hurts. If I spill it out in defense of another, I can deny it's mine.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted - but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this?
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Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one’s own code.
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The witnesses who testified before the grand jury were never subjected to cross-examination or impeachment by the defense
