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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. What most persons consider as virtue after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
  • 2. Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
  • 3. The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age and it was a rescue.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers – we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that because we would have drifted apart.
  • 2. The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices – just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing – it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.
  • 3. To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

3 Anger

  • 1. I use the music to vent and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety stress and depression so that's how the album came out so dark.
  • 2. What starts the process really are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence personal gut performance.
  • 3. I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  • 2. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.
  • 3. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Opera next to Gothic architecture is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
  • 2. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
  • 3. I don't find Hollywood interesting so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
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