"The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties."

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Source : "Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2009.

Jacob M. Appel

#Lying Quotes #Reality Quotes #Justice Quotes

“Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.”

Source : James Davison Hunter (2010). “To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World”, p.44, Oxford University Press
“Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.”
“Don't believe everything you hear, don't believe everything you read and only believe half of what you see”
“I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.”
“Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?”
“I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about.”
“People shouldn't be treated like objects. They aren't that valuable.”
“Deposits of unfinished grief reside in more American hearts that I ever imagined. Until these pockets are opened and their contents aired openly, they block unimagined amounts of human growth and potential. They can give rise to bizarre and unexplained behavior which causes untold internal stress.”

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