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.
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.
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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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Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option
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In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.
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It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.
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I leave my heart on the court every night. I earn my keep.
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Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.
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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.
