"I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments of every case. First came the one that I planned-as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. Second was the one actually presented-interrupted, incoherent, disjointed, disappointing. The third was the utterly devastating argument that I thought of after going to bed that night."

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Source : Lecture before State Bar of California, San Francisco, Cal., 23 Aug. 1951

Robert H. Jackson

#Night Quotes #Law Quotes #Three Quotes

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”

Source : Simone de Beauvoir (1963). “Nature of the second sex”
“Learning how to shine a pair of shoes to me was like if you could do, you were like you were on your way to having abilities and skills as to be able to spit-shine a pair of shoes like they're patent leather. You're a bad dude. To spit-shine a pair of shoes. So, even to that small detail, that aided me and assisted me in becoming the artist that I am. My uncles' sense of style, their type of ties they used. The way they wore their suits, big and huge and baggy. The way they did their haircuts with the side burns. All of that.”
“There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests”
“It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.”
“As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.”
“Do no harm & leave the world a better place than you found it.”
“Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God.”
“If you want proof that Catfish was real, just put me in an audition room and watch me fall apart. I can't pretend. I'm really bad at it. That's partly what makes me good at hosting a reality show.”

Source : "Yaniv “Nev” Schulman Talks CATFISH: THE TV SHOW, Which Chronicles His Trek Around the Country to Document Couples in Online Romances". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 7, 2012.

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