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We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professiona

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. – Felix Frankfurter

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We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights. – Felix Frankfurter

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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. – Felix Frankfurter

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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an ?lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment. – W. H. Auden

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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another. – John Gay

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Always listen to experts. Theyll tell you what cant be done and why. Then do it. – Robert A. Heinlein

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What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home. – Proverb

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They know enough who know how to learn. – Henry Adams

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We cant understand when were pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time – like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. – Anne Lamott

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Every New Year is the direct descendant, isnt it, of a long line of proven criminals? – Ogden Nash

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Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth. – Robert B. Laughlin

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