Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.
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An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.
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Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.
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Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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Journalists are like dogs, whenever anything moves they begin to bark.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
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I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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Never take less than a guinea for doing anything, nor less than half a one for doing nothing. Among lawyers, moderation would be infamy.
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I've never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.
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Going to trial with a lawyer who views your whole life as a crime in progress is not a happy prospect.
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The reason we can’t have the 10 commandments in a courthouse? You cannot post “Thou shall not steal”, “Thou shall not commit adultery”, and “Thou shall not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
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A man who never graduated from school might steal from a freight car. But a man who attends college and graduates as a lawyer might steal the whole railroad.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
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Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all ... you know, they become lawyers.
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Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
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Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
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There is no crueller tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
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No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
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Law and justice are not always the same.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
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It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man.
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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
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Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
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Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer.
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at things. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
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