"I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything."

-- Abraham Lincoln

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“I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.”
“Finally, I found a wonderful agent who wanted to work with me, and she sent it to one billion publishers and received one billion rejections, until I was fortunate enough to be matched up with the Permanent Press.”
“The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death . . .”

Source : James Woods @RealJamesWoods, twitter.com. July 19, 2013.
“We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.”
“I myself am hell; nobody's here”

Source : 'Skunk Hour' (1959) st. 5
“Defense to me is the key to playing baseball”
“The mathematician of to-day admits that he can neither square the circle, duplicate the cube or trisect the angle. May not our mechanicians, in like manner, be ultimately forced to admit that aerial flight is one of that great class of problems with which men can never cope... I do not claim that this is a necessary conclusion from any past experience. But I do think that success must await progress of a different kind from that of invention.”
“I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.”

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