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“The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.”

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Louis D. Brandeis

Louis D. Brandeis was a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, known for his contributions to law and social justice. He was born on November 13, 1856, and died on October 5, 1941. more

“While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned; it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.”

Men Heart Made Matter Jobs Mistake Worst Crime Judgment Concerned Let Me Commit Offense Legalism

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.”

Feels Might Argument Logical Blank Lunatic Uneasiness

Book:The Case of Comrade Tulayev

Source: The Case of Comrade Tulayev

“There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.”

Imagination Mankind Property Affection Strikes

Book:Commentaries on the Laws of England

Source: Commentaries on the Laws of England

“They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.”

Made Hands Eating Fingers Knives Forks

Book:The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage

Source: The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage

“The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.”

Men Mean Science Creation Universal Invention Permanent Immortal Knives Knots Ingenious Guillotine

Book:We: New Edition

Source: We: New Edition

“If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be supplied in atoms, as money is doled out in pence or centimes instead of continuously;-in which case our customary existence will turn out to be no more really continuous than the events on a kinematograph screen;-while that great agent of continuity, the Ether of Space, will be relegated to the museum of historical curiosities.”

Source: Continuity: The Presidential Address to the British Association for 1913

“Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which might disturb the orderly classifications of the taxonomist.”

Might Form Science Used Natural Garden Species Museums Orderly Classification Burial Rumours Natural History

Book:Darwin's Finches

Source: Darwin's Finches

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