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• It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Horse, Hero

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• It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Heart, Law, Conclusion

  "Another Day Of Questions For Sotomayor". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. July 15, 2009.

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• In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

  Mary Hart

  Organization, News, Stories

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• I still continue to do at least four concert tours a year, and in many cases, as many as six.

  Norman Granz

  Years, Four, Six

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• Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

  Djuna Barnes

  Funny, Life Is Short, Bad Day

  Djuna Barnes, Phillip F. Herring, Osias Stutman (2005). “Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs”, p.285, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

  John Y. Campbell

  Law, Prison, Said

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• The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Cynical, Body, Tongue

  Dell' Anatomia Vol. 1, Ch. III

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• The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. The main symptom was falling hair. Diarrhoea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.

  John Hersey

  Falling In Love, Hair, Fever

  "Hiroshima".

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• The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.

  Robert Barany

  Spontaneity, Spontaneous, Canals

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• A case of can't do with, can't do without, that's why I married him again.

  Dionne Warwick

  Married

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• To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

  Irving Kaufman

  History, Perspective, Mind

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• In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

  William Godwin

  Love Is, Understood

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.274

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• And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

  Elvis Costello

  Country, Artist, Curiosity

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• Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

  Dennis Hastert

  Good Day, Feet, Judging

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• In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Believe, Second Chance

  Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

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• Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.

  Catherine Crier

  Memorable, Matter, Lists

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• Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases

  Johnnie Cochran

  New York, Trying, Criminals

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• One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Citing, Abolitionist, Emancipation

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.102, Book Tree

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• After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

  Sheikh Hasina

  Islamic, Terror Attacks, Government

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• To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

  John Churton Collins

  Advice, Nine, Flattery

  In L. C. Collins Life of John Churton Collins (1912) p. 316

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• I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.

  Susan Estrich

  Hippie, Alternatives, Littles

  "Naming Kobe Bryant's Accuser". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. October 15, 2004.

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• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  Edith Wharton

  People, Different, Stories

  Edith Wharton, Barbara Anne White (1995). “Wharton's New England: Seven Stories and Ethan Frome”, p.99, UPNE

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• "In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

  Lewis Carroll

  Father, Talking, Law

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 5 (1865)

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• The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

  Alice Walker

  God, Experience, Possibility

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