"The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth."

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Source : David Rosenfelt (2011). “One Dog Night: An Andy Carpenter Novel”, p.99, Minotaur Books

David Rosenfelt

#Believe Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Trials Quotes

“All women scientists should marry, rear children, cook, and clean in order to achieve fulfillment, to be a complete woman.”
“We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.”
“Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny self, to take up the cross and to follow Him. Now who denies himself and takes up his cross and follows Christ better than he who seeks not to do his own will, but always that of God? Behold, now, how little is needed to become as Saint? Nothing more than to acquire the habit of willing, on every occasion, what God wills.”
“You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.”
“I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.”

Source : "The Givers: Alan Alda Plays With Fire! An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 10, 2012.
“Teach not with your words, but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.”
“I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book.”
“We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.”

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