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“I have always been honest about my recollection of events.”

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David Blunkett is a prominent British politician born on June 6, 1947. He has been active in British politics for many years, serving as Minister of Education and Minister of the Home Office. Blunkett focused on education, immigration, and social welfare during his political career, having a significant impact on British social policy. more

“The very purpose of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution is to protect minority rights against majority voters. Every court decision that strikes down discriminatory legislation, including past Supreme Court decisions, affirming the fundamental rights to marry the person you love, overrules a majority decision.”

“But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.”

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“I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.”

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“I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.”

Years Boys Paper Summer Grades Fourth Fifth Fourth Grade Fifth Grade

Author:David Boies

“You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.”

Ifs Knows Mind Made Done Facts Loses Cases Judging

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“Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.”

Writing Doe Seems Running Pieces Written Running Away

Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.”

World Desire Regard Command Ambitious Heed

Book:The Life of David Brainerd ... Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings. By Jonathan Edwards. With Preface, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar

Source: The Life of David Brainerd ... Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings. By Jonathan Edwards. With Preface, by the Rev. Horatius Bonar

“My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.”

Has Beens Hands Views Approach Blessed Contrary Disorder Consumption Symptoms Delighted Great Change

Book:Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary

Source: Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary

“Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.”

People Economy Risk Doors Terrible Plutonium

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“I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.”

Writing Hands Earth Clubs League Voters Conservation Sierra

Author:David R. Brower

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