"It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing."

-- Warren E. Burger

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“All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.”
“I think that I am willing to risk my life in order to have more freedom.”
“All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, Iâ€™d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.”
“I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”
“I've appeared on some other people's albums.”
“I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesnâ€™t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasnâ€™t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.”
“It may seem rash indeed to draw conclusions valid for the whole universe from what we can see from the small corner to which we are confined. Who knows that the whole visible universe is not like a drop of water at the surface of the earth? Inhabitants of that drop of water, as small relative to it as we are relative to the Milky Way, could not possibly imagine that beside the drop of water there might be a piece of iron or a living tissue, in which the properties of matter are entirely different.”

Source : "Space And Time".
“It is unfortunate when final decisions are made by chieftains headquartered miles away from the front, where they can only guess at conditions and potentialities known only to the captain of the battlefield.”

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