"Cross-examination is the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth. You can do anything with a bayonet except sit on it. A lawyer can do anything with cross-examination if he is skillful enough not to impale his own cause upon it."

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Source : John Henry Wigmore, John Theodore McNaughton, Peter Tillers, James Harmon Chadbourn (1974). “Evidence in trials at common law”

John Henry Wigmore

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“Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic victory that in many ways contributed to the end of the Empire.”
“There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami.”

Source : "Scarborough Country", www.nbcnews.com. January 3, 2005.
“In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.”

Source : Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.107, Random House
“An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.”

Source : 'Noblesse Oblige' (1956) 'The English Aristocracy'
“If you want to establish a clear image in the minds of consumers, you first need a clear image in your own mind.”
“You've been fightin again and, you forgot why Hey kid, walk straight, master your high”

Source : Song: Hey Young World, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988
“I've faced worse things in my life than prison”
“When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.”

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