"Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws."

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Source : "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

Bill James

#Law Quotes #Stories Quotes #Crime Quotes

“I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.”
“It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.”

Source : St. John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross”, p.93, ICS Publications
“I feel more comfortable in saris than gowns.”

Source : "Ek Deewana Tha's Amy Jackson talks Bollywood!". Interview with Nila Choudhury, urbanasian.com. February 9, 2012.
“I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.”
“Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity”
“If a specific question has meaning, it must be possible to find operations by which an answer may be given to it ... I believe that many of the questions asked about social and philosophical subjects will be found to be meaningless when examined from the point of view of operations.”
“I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.”
“But that's a side effect of alcohol, isn't it? Stopping to think about other people is not on the bar menu.”

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