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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.


Earl Warren


#any #barred #because #calls #confess

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.


Richard Whately


#his #side #truth #wishes

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#hide #keep #must #possesses #secret

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#else #happens #knows #man #neither

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.


Robert Fitzgerald


#finds #happens #language #more #oneself

The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.


Moshe Katsav


#iranian #iranian regime #people #regime #values

He dabbed at his tuxedo with a damp rag, and the fungi came away easily. "Hate to do this, Bill," he said of the fungi he was murdering. "Fungi have as much right to life as I do. they know what they want, Bill. Damned if I do anymore." Then he thought about what Bill himself might want. It was easy to guess. "Bill," he said, "I like you so much, and I am such a big shot in the Universe, that I will make your three biggest wishes come true." He opened the door of the cage, something Bill couldn't have done in a thousand years. Bill flew over to the windowsill. He put his little shoulder against the glass. there was just one layer of glass between Bill and the great out-of-doors. Although Trough was in the storm window business, he had no storm windows on his own abode. "Your second wish is about to come true," said Trout, and he again did something which Bill could never have done. he opened the window. But the opening of the window was such an alarming business to the parakeet that he flew back to his cage and hopped inside. Trout closed the door of the cage and latched it. "That's the most intelligent use of three wishes I ever heard of," he told the bird. "You made sure you'd still have something worth wishing for--to get out of the cage.


Kurt Vonnegut


#wishes #business

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.


George Ade


#anyone #bad #become #bed #early

If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?!


Stephen Colbert


#pants #twitter #wishes #twitter

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.


Ovid


#fears #man #perish #whom #wishes






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