"The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it."

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Source : Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

Learned Hand

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“Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the form.”

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“I ain't gonna pay no dollar for a corn muffin that's half dough.”

Source : Kevin Kling (2008). “The Dog Says How”, p.94, Minnesota Historical Society
“Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you know what I mean? People permit entertainment to wash over them, but every once and a while, entertainment - and this is entertaining - also galvanizes something else and that would be a really good thing to have happen in this case.”
“Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.”
“It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.”
“We didn't talk about our scars, the ones you could see and the ones you couldn't.”
“I am a Beyonce fan. Iâ€™m gonna watch her upcoming documentary because fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning so Iâ€™ll be able to understand what she says. You know Beyonce canâ€™t talk. She sounds like she has a fifth grade education.”
“Caleb runs up to me and folds me carefully in his arms. I breathe a sigh of relief. I thought I had gotten to the point where I didnâ€™t need my brother anymore, but I donâ€™t think such a point actually exists.”

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