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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Category: Legal

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes – they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring regardless of your age.
  • 2. Death comes not to the living soul nor age to the loving heart.
  • 3. Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I had one drama teacher who was amazing Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
  • 2. Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis – the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
  • 3. With most British actors it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

3 Anger

  • 1. You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry terribly angry about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
  • 2. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
  • 3. I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave he bought me three wedding rings already!

4 Anniversary

  • 1. My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.
  • 2. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 3. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

5 Architecture

  • 1. The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
  • 2. Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
  • 3. The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them not make them worse.
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