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Thought For the Day: It Is Not What A Lawyer Tells Me I May Do; But What Humanity, Reason, and Justice Tell Me I Ought To Do
“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.” – Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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Tagged Edmund Burke, Humanity, Justice, Lawyer, May Do, Ought To Do, Reason, Thought For the Day
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Given the Dickens I’ve Known
Show of hands, who has read Charles Dickens in their lives? Who in the last 30 years? Yet, he stands as perhaps the greatest novelist in the English language. It almost scares me to know that I had read five … Continue reading
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Tagged Adventure, Alley Ways, Breach, Century, Charles Dickens, Childhood, Clarity, Classes, Common Cause, Days, Debt, Decade, Endure, English, Hope, Imprisonment, Industrial, Lawyer, Life, Masses, Misery, Morality, Novelist, Photograph, Poem, Poet's Corner, Poetry, Reaches, Sentimentality, Severity, Society, Society's Contract, Squalor, Strife, Struck, Struggle, Tales, Westminster Abby
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Long Walk To Mercy
It’s been a long walk toward mercy and justice. To advocate on its behalf is completely and totally right. To protest in peaceful assembly is totally and completely right. It’s totally wrong to burn down cities and private property … Continue reading
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Tagged Advocate, All Life Is Sacred, All Lives Matter, AME, Bitter Fruit, Burn Down, Capital Punishment, Choir Boys, Conviction, Crossed Lines, Death Row, Defeated, Demarcation, Deserved, Elocution, Enough, Fancy Talk, God's Hand, Good Man, Hang Out, Hope, Indignity, Innocent Man, Justice, Lawyer, Legacy, Long Walk, Look, Mercy, Mistaken Identity, Obtain, Peaceful Assembly, Persevere, Photograph, Plain To See, Poem, Poetry, Pressing On, Protest, Sad, Served, Stay of Execution, Talk, Tears, Treat, Wrong
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Smiled On A Blue Note
Despite all the controversies surrounding the band, probably my all time favorite musical group is Led Zeppelin. I was reminded of this only just yesterday. Smiled On A Blue Note by Michael Romani Come to me so gently Floated on … Continue reading
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Tagged Audacity, Blue Note, Capacity, Clown, Complete, Controversy, Dance, Delight, Delta Blues, Drama, Due, Feel, Garden, Gentle, Karma, Know, Lawyer, Led Zeppelin, Levee, Line, Melody, Moonlight, Moss, Open Secret, Own, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Prince, Quiet, Rhapsody, Riff, Rock N Roll, Rote, Say, Sing, Smile, Song, Sonic, Soul, Stone, Story, Stroll, Voice, Yer Blues, Yesterday
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First Principles: Congress Consists Mainly of Attorneys Who Question Everything, Yield Nothing & Talk By the Hour
“If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 … Continue reading
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Tagged Body, Congress, Err, Expect, First Principles, Lawyer, Question, Talk, Talk By the Hour, Thomas Jefferson, Trade, Yield Nothing
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