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"The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer. "
— Will Rogers

tags: law, lawyers

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"We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers."
— Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

tags: lawyers

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"Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers."
— George R.R. Martin (Ace in the Hole)

tags: lawyers, politicians

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"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

tags: lawyers

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"Lawyer — One who protects us against robbers by taking away the temptation."
— H.L. Mencken

tags: lawyers

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"All we know about the new economic world tells us that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness. "
— Richard Lamm

tags: civilisation, engineering, engineers, law, lawyers

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"When cops are on the job they love lawyers like lions love hyenas, only minus the mutual respect."
— Reed Farrel Coleman (The James Deans)

tags: cops, lawyers

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"The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police."
— Jan Neruda (Prague Tales)

tags: lawyers, police

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