"One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains."

-- Carolyn Heilbrun

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“Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?”
“The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!”
“I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.”
“I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.”
“A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.”
“If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a matter of a few rounds before I make my way to the bookshelf. If there are good books on it, I may never leave the spot all night. Anybody I really want to talk to is going to make his or her way to that bookshelf sooner or later, anyway, right? Books are a nexus. They start conversations, and they continue conversations, and they make people better conversationalists. I have not found this to be the case with Iron Chef, or even alcohol.”
“every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.”
“Everyone thinks my name is Jerry Laitis and they call me Mr Laitis. What can you do when you have a name that sounds like a disease?”

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