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1 " Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants. "
― Michael Crichton , State of Fear
2 " The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide. "
3 " You can't get decent Mexican food in DC. "
4 " Sometimes I think everyone's an attorney. "
5 " Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice. "
6 " Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously. "
7 " Nobody dares to solve the problems-because the solution might contradict your philosophy, and for most people clinging to beliefs is more important than succeeding in the world. "
8 " When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately? "
9 " Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well. "
10 " False fears are a plague, a modern plague! "
11 " Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And if they are smart, they'll make sure their work subtly flatters the patron. Not overtly. Subtly. "
12 " Even if you don’t believe in any God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious. "
13 " I have more respect for people who change their views after acquiring new information than for those who cling to views they held thirty years ago. The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don’t. "
14 " The world was not how you wanted it to be. The world was how it was. "
15 " La actual preocupación casi histérica por la seguridad es en el mejor de los casos un derroche de recursos y un obstáculo para el espíritu humano, y en el peor de los casos una invitación al totalitarismo. Se necesita con urgencia educación pública. "
16 " If there’s anything worse than a limousine liberal,” Morton said, “it’s a Gulfstream environmentalist. "
17 " The biggest cause of environmental destruction is poverty. Starving people can’t worry about pollution. They worry about food. Half "
18 " Eugenics research was funded by the Carnegie Foundation, and later by the Rockefeller Foundation. The "
19 " based on UN statistics, is that before the DDT ban, malaria had become almost a minor illness. Fifty thousand deaths a year worldwide. A few years later, it was once again a global scourge. Fifty million people have died since the ban, "
20 " But as Alston Chase put it, “when the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power. "