"I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that."

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Source : "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". Interview with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

Floyd Abrams

#Book Quotes #Law Quotes #Enough Quotes

“A well-prepared mind hopes in adversity and fears in prosperity. [Lat., Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus.]”
“Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.”
“The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself. We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us. We no longer demand that sensory consciousness be anything other than an existing condition that we can use skillfully according to time and place.”
“You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough”
“I believe that the thought that women together can change the world is emerging into the minds and hearts of many of us, and that the vessel for personal and planetary evolution is the circle with a spiritual center.”

Source : Jean Shinoda Bolen (2008). “Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World”, p.145, Conari Press
“Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.”
“Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has turned this staple of Americana into a gorgeous art form.”
“I don't claim to have an answer to every question, but I promise you I have a question for every answer.”

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