"The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

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“Conscience is its own readiest accuser.”
“After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us.”

Source : "Friedrich Kittler obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.
“I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.”
“We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.”
“In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.”
“When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.”
“I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.”
“The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.”

Source : Katharine Tynan (1922). “The Wandering Years”

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