"New York [cannot] remain the center of commerce and capital for this continent, unless it has an independent bar and an honest judiciary."

-- Samuel J. Tilden

#New York Quotes #Independent Quotes #Bars Quotes

“Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?”
“If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.”
“President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.”
“I should not dare to call my soul my own.”
“We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.”
“There is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity. All life is one; therefore, there cannot be God and man, nor a universe and God. A god not in the world is a false god, and a world not in God is unreal. All things return to one, and one operates in all.”
“The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.”
“Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.”

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