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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad

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It is when we try to grapple with another mans intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. – Joseph Conrad

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People
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Joseph Conrad
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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? – Joseph Conrad

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Fear
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Joseph Conrad
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It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. – Warren E. Burger

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You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybodys switching to a computer. And Im sort of laughed at. – Robert Caro

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Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer. – George Herbert

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legal

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters. – Tom Tancredo

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I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. – Carlos Fuentes

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Surfing soothes me, its always been a kind of Zen experience for me. The ocean is so magnificent, peaceful, and awesome. The rest of the world disappears for me when Im on a wave. – Paul Walker

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Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room. – Eric Liu

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