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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

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Author:

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. For students today only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
  • 2. TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary with independent films you just can't.
  • 3. Second to agriculture humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something something would overspill something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help and basically taking control of the whole situation so I was quite glad she was there at the time.
  • 2. I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.
  • 3. I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music not only in recording but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

3 Anger

  • 1. But on second thought after I decreed the state of emergency I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
  • 2. Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred there the childlike smile of serene humility.
  • 3. Get mad then get over it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The day before the anniversary of D-Day we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
  • 2. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse hopefully enduring and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
  • 3. I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw the worse things got for me musically.

5 Architecture

  • 1. An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.
  • 2. An important work of architecture will create polemics.
  • 3. To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
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