"Whatever their failings as a class may be, and however likely to lose their immortal souls, lawyers do not generally lose papers."

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Arthur Cheney Train

#Law Quotes #Class Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.”
“A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.”
“As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.”

Source : "A little advice for Obama at the half". fortune.com. November 18, 2010.
“I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.”

Source : "Henning Von Tresckow: Ein Preuße Gegen Hitler". Book by Bodo Scheurig, 1980.
“Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.”

Source : Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hacterus ... : with a Portrait of the Author”, p.261
“Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.”
“Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives.”
“There were two auditions for The Social Network, one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?”

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