"The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off."

-- T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

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“Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others in the profession -- will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.”
“Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find out truths themselves; and after they have learned this, they no more need them than a well man needs a staff, or a grown-up child needs a walking-stool.”
“I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.”

Source : "Who's to blame?" by Lewis Wolpert, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2002.
“You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women”
“I rob banks because that's where the money is.”

Source : "Willie Sutton Said It First: ‘That's Where the Money Is’" by Leonard Buder, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1979.
“Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back. It took me 14 years to get where I am. I'm going to hang in there”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I'm in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I'm holding her.”
“North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish stocks.”

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