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Quote by Nelson Algren
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to th

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. – Nelson Algren

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy –yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. – Nelson Algren

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Love
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I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday. – Nelson Algren

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Hollywood
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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. – Nelson Algren

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Authors & Writing
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We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. – Romeo LeBlanc

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legal

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies. – Francis Parker Yockey

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legal

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. – P. J. ORourke

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legal

I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease. – Betty Hill

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legal

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No, Sir, it is a good thing; there is a community of mind in it. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. – Samuel Johnson, quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell, Volume II

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More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you’ve been bad and good. – Linda Sunshine

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Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960s. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club. – Jack Nicklaus

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Safety is from God alone. – Anon.

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