"Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating."

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Source : James Huneker (1920). “Painted Veils”

James Huneker

#Sweat Quotes #Bread Quotes #Lawyer Quotes

“I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.”
“Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.”

Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 134, 1929.
“When a woman falls in love with the magnificent possibilities within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold less and less sway over her.”
“When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.”
“Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market.”
“I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?”
“Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.”
“I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.”

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