Learned Hand Quotes
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.
Quotes to Explore
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.
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To reasoned people, almost everything is understandable, but evil is forever incomprehensible.
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Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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Since I was 21, I have not been able to sleep past 9 A.M.; I just want to get up and do something.
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Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.
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If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.
