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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quotes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote: "Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with. Lawrence Eagleburger
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Nonetheless, I felt like I knew him well enough so that we did not have to do much talking. From the very beginning I had felt a definite contact with Yeoman, a kind of tenuous understanding that talk is pretty cheap in this league and that a man who knew what he was after had damn little time to find it, much less to sit back and explain himself. Hunter S. Thompson
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It sure is a pleasure not having Flume around in the mess hall any more. No more of that 'Pass the salt, Walt.'"Or 'Pass the bread, Fred.'"Or 'Shoot me a beet, Pete. Joseph Heller
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