"What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men."

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Irving Kaufman

#Men Quotes #Law Quotes #History Quotes

“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.”

Source : Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.
“I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If we perceived life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical life and walk the earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.”
“Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.”
“It is an indication of Chelski's warped finances that even successive titles can be regarded as failure. Spend unprecedented sums and only unprecedented success can be commensurate. Chelski won't get the credit they think they deserve because of the money they've spent. There's Â£300m worth of difference between a victory and an achievement.”
“The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.”
“Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.”
“The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.”

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