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If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. ↗

— Dean Kamen

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There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. ↗

— Irving R. Kaufman

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It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

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I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well. ↗

— Michael King

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Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods. ↗

— Lee Konitz

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There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live. ↗

— Rip Torn

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