"The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided."

-- Harlan F. Stone

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“What are we to think of the shortsightedness of the great mass of people who are content to do nothing about it, and even worse, the greed or venality of the rich and powerful who deliberately bar the way to human survival?”
“It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.”
“In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie.”
“I never really thought we'd fitted into the cross-over drawer. But I think the real Sugar Ray fans did like us because we always had variety and because we experimented a lot.”
“It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough.”
“Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.”

Source : "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.
“But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker... it would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property.”

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