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The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. ↗

— Gene Fowler

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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

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I sing some songs but don't expect me to release an album anytime soon. ↗

— Lily Collins

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We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other. ↗

— Michael F. Easley

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Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member. ↗

— George H. Mead

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I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life. ↗

— Cornelius Vanderbilt

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You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

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No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

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