"The most innocent man, pressed by the awful solemnities of public accusation and trial, many be incapable of supporting his own cause. He may be utterly unfit to cross-examine the witnesses against him, to point out the contradictions or defects of their testimony. And to counteract it by properly introducing it and applying his own."

-- William Rawle

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“American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.”
“I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.”
“Nature with her wonders blinds and binds one still. There is no escape. I love her utterly through all time and times. All over the world towns to me are prison; green fields are home.”
“It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.”
“After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles.”

Source : Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”
“Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.”
“When I came to Detroit I was just a mild-mannered Sunday-school boy.”
“Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.”

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