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“I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.”

- Calvin Coolidge
“Litigation, n: ‘A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.’ ”

- Ambrose Bierce, in “The Devil’s Dictionary” (1911)
“You can’t win…but there are alternatives to fighting.”

- Obi-Wan Kenobi, in Star Wars (IV)
“Laws are not made for particular cases, but for men in general.”

- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell’s Life (1776)
“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, 2nd Speech on Conciliation with America (1773)
“So let us begin anew — remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

- John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 1961
“We should learn from the mistakes of others. We don’t have time to make them all ourselves.”

- Marx (Groucho… not Karl !)
“We need to consider moving some cases from trial by battle in the courtroom, to mediation. Divorce and child custody are prime candidates.”
Hon. Warren E. Burger , Former Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much…”

- Mother Teresa
“Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering.”

- Yoda, the Jedi Master, in