"A lawyer without books would be like..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.
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“And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?”
“The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.”
“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”
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“The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.”
“Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.”
“I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.”
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“I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.”
“Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.”
“Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.”