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The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

~Alan Dershowitz

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Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: All-Powerful Because Believer Command Does Doing God King Make Merely Moral Person Said Secular Something Tells Us Who

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Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

~Alan Dundes

Topics: American Ancestors Asian Characteristic Children Cultures Does Example Favor For Example Grandparents Piety Really Resonate Who Worship

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When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.

~Alan G. Poindexter

Topics: Being Crawling Does Down Hard Headed Hill Launch Out Pad See Something Then Up You

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What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing all human beings do when they are confronted with uncertainty is pull back, withdraw, disengage, and that means economic activity, which is really dealing with people, just goes straight down.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Activity Back Beings Confront Confronted Dealing Does Down Economic Economic Activity Elements Goes Human Human Beings Just Means Money One Thing People Pull Really Sound Stabilize Straight System The One Thing Thing Uncertainty Which Withdraw

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I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.

~Alan J. Pakula

Topics: Am Audience Because Communication Does Film Finally Get Give Important Just Levels Like Lot Many Many Levels Might My Own Nature Oblique Own Simplistic Take Terribly Texture Things Think Those Trying Well Which Will Work I Think I Am

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Men die but an idea does not.

~Alan Jay Lerner

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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

~Alan Kay

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The more senior your management position is, the more important it is to connect the organization or the project to the outside world. You know, how does this fit in with what we're doing? What is the real goal, the real mission?

~Alan Mulally

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We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.

~Alan Mulally

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