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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
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A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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A library is thought in cold storage.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
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About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
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America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.
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America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
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An act of God was defined as ''something which no reasonable man could have expected.''
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And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
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And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
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And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.
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