"To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in the congested traffic of a modern community. It is about time to abandon judicial somnambulism."

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Source : Jerome Frank (1930). “Law and the Modern Mind”, p.171, Transaction Publishers

Jerome Frank

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“When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.”
“I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.”
“I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.”
“There is honor between bitches”
“Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.”
“Soon, everything else would come rushing at him. Like the ground to a falling man, it would come rushing up and hit him all at once - the place, the company, her words; one implication would lead to another and shatter him - but around that intake of breath the world hung silent and bright, so bright, and Akiva only knew this one thing, and held on to it and wanted to live inside of it and stay there forever. Karou was alive.”
“There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.”
“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”

Source : "On humanity". Ted Talks, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

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