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" Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives. "

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" We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts. "

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" The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost. "

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" But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions. "

" I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. "

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" Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. "

" Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. "

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" I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get. "

" Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom. "

" I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. "

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" Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions. "

" The good lawyer is the great salesman. "

" Some of the worst racist tragedies in history have been perfectly legal. "

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" In the U.S., you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you; but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything. They may not even have to give the company a search warrant. "

" To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait until I'm a little bit freer. "

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" So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech. "

" Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. "

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" I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good. "

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" Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics. "

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" The first misconception is that embryonic stem cell research is not legal. The fact is, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal. Research on embryonic stem cells has taken place for years. "

" I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities. "

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" I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool. "

" An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. "

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" Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it. "

" Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. "

" My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence. "

" I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. "