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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If you want my answer about Donald Trump, you can Google it. It's everywhere. They've got this new thing called Google.
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Charity fundraisers are nothing new to me. In the past, I have taken part in ski races for hospitals, walks for breast cancer, and long distance bike rides for geriatric care.
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As a man may know about Africa either by going there personally or by reading descriptions written by travelers who have been there, so may he visit the super-physical realms if he will but qualify himself therefor, or he may learn what others who have so qualified themselves report as a result of their investigations.
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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.
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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.
