"If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better."

-- Ernest Gaines

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“The court doesn't follow public opinion. The court's views are radically out of step with public opinion.”
“A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.”
“Iâ€™ve come to ask how you do it. How you feel what I know youâ€™re feeling and then walk away like that.”
“I've been incredibly blessed.”
“I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.”
“Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out of the car and showing her which was the Men's and which was the Women's, so I let her pick them herself. I worked out a system. The law of averages. I laid money on her and she came out about fifty-fifty.”
“Yesterday is a cancelled check; Tomorrow is a promissory note; Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.”
“Are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life--a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?”

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