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Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very act of remembering involves chosing words, actions and images. In other words, any witness who was supposed to be giving a court facts is really just giving them a version of fiction. Jodi Picoult
Saul Bellow quote: "Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always..."
Unfortunately for the betterment of mankind it is not always the fair-minded who are in the right. Saul Bellow
Charles Dickens quote: "Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence...."
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. Charles Dickens
Wedded she some years, and to a man. Of fifty, and such husbands are in plenty; And yet, I think, instead of such a ONE'Twere better to have TWO of five and twenty... George Byron
When I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his life, how he had to leave me there, sick, to get on with his wives and woes. Jack Kerouac
According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do it. Why?" Jefferson asked, as Adams would recount. Reasons enough," Adams said. What can be your reasons?"Reason first: you are a Virginian and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second: I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third: You can write ten times better than I... David McCullough
Eudora Welty quote: "One place understood helps us understand all places better"
One place understood helps us understand all places better Eudora Welty
...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him. John Updike
One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability. Jean Baudrillard
To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed... Arthur Schopenhauer
Anyone who looked more white folkish than herself was better than she was in her criteria, therefore it was right that they should be cruel to her at times, just as she was cruel to those more negroid than herself in direct ratio to their negroness. Zora Neale Hurston
Graham Chapman quote: "She turned me into a newt.... But I got better..."
She turned me into a newt.... But I got better... Graham Chapman
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize. Gene Wolfe
Mary Renault quote: "It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from..."
It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies Mary Renault

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