"There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life."

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Karen Thompson Walker

#Ordinary Quotes #Pleasure Quotes #Ordinary Life Quotes

“As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.”

Source : Edward H. Levi (2013). “Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi”, p.38, University of Chicago Press
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
“Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.”
“As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.”
“This is a slippery slope. In addition to that at what point are we going to be okay marrying inanimate objects? Can I marry this table or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous. And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.”
“I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me.”
“A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.”
“Thomas has the kind of whiter-than-white boyish grin that makes women's panties spontaneously evaporate.”

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