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I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.
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Now listen, Lam," he said, "you're a nice egg but you've got yourself poured into the wrong pan."
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Courage is the antidote to danger.
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You might be interested in his economic philosophy, Mr. Mason. He believed men attached too much importance to money as such. He believed a dollar represented a token of work performed, that men were given these tokens to hold until they needed the product of work performed by some other man, that anyone who tried to get a token without giving his best work in return was an economic counterfeiter. He felt that most of our depression trouble..
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Just because people are liars is no reason for us to be fools.
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A great believer in precedent,' Della Street said. 'I think if he were ever confronted with a really novel situation he'd faint. He runs to his law books, digs around like a mole and finally comes up with case that's what he calls and was decided seventy-five or a hundred years ago.
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We're a dramatic people," Perry Mason said slowly. "We're not like the English. The English want dignity and order. We want the dramatic and the spectacular. It's a national craving. We're geared to a rapid rate of thought. We want to have things move in a spectacular manner."
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I have one weapon," Mason said. "It's a powerful weapon. But sometimes it's hard to wield it because you don't know just where to grab hold of it."
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it takes a powerful motivation to lead to murder. That's why people don't usually murder comparative strangers.
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To reach your goal, remember that courage is the only antidote for danger.
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When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear.
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Then I'll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.
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marriage
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reason I am telling you all of this is that, according to Harrod, Fern Driscoll
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There was that about her which indicated she was warily watchful.
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The whole structure of the law has to be a dignified, imposing edifice and built on firm foundations, if it is going to stand. Whenever you violate the law, you are tearing down a part of that structure, regardless of what goal you may want to achieve.
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The best fighters don't worry about what the other man may do. And if they keep things moving fast enough, the other man is too busy to do much thinking.
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Objected to as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial,
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A nurse," I said, "would be wearing a starched uniform, and she'd have a fever thermometer ready to jab into a patient's mouth at the first sign of acute convalescence."
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Life is like that. We can only see from birth to death. The rest of it is cut from our vision." Drake" --
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overboard,
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will-have a tendency to
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Angeles in the plain-clothes division,
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as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial.
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I take it," the lawyer remarked musingly, "patience isn't one of your virtues." "I didn't know," she said, "that patience WAS a virtue."
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appraisal was evident in his glance. "Well, then," he said, "let's hear about"
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Clinton Foley is living?" "Of course he's living. He's living next door"
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You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.
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Events are like telephone poles, streaming back past the observation platform of a speeding train.
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Married men get so they make a routine even of keeping a mistress
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You Can Die Laughing (1957) Some
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And then what happens to the reformer, lover? He either has to build up a political machine or else he's defeated at the next election. If he builds up a political machine, he has to do it by distributing gravy to the boys who are on the inside.--Hell, Donald, politicians always have cake. The people pass it to them on silver platters, and when the politicians cut it, they have to cut a piece for each of their friends. Otherwise, the friend..
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We have graft today. A hundred years ago we had graft. We probably have more today than we had a hundred years ago. For three generations now people have been following reformers, fighting all sort of graft.--And what has it brought them, sweetheart? Not a damn thing, except more graft than when they started
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Every eight years, the people swallow some politician hook, line, and sinker and make him president. They hold him on the political stomach for about six years. Then they commence to get indigestion because the politicians quit pouring the soda bicarbonate of publicity into their stomachs. At the end of eight years, they vomit him up in order to swallow someone else,
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did you ever hear of a politician who wasn't elected on a platform of economy in office?" "That isn't it," I said. "Oh yes it is, lover. I can remember way back. Even then all politicians were promising economy, and still it wasn't new. They'd always hold up the extravagances of the past administration before the horrified eyes of the voters. They'd pledge greater economy and get elected.--And there's never a case on record, lover, where a ..
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Mason." Mauvis"
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Della Street, Perry Mason's confidential secretary, said, "A couple of lovebirds have strayed into the office without an appointment. They insist it's a matter of life and death." "Everything is," Mason said. "If you start with the idea of perpetuating life, you must accept the inevitable corollary of death--but I presume these people aren't interested in my philosophical ideas." "These people,"
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pool our information," Dimmick said, "to work out a joint plan of campaign." "Thank you, I don't think I'd care to do that," Mason told him. "I want to be free to represent my client in whatever way seems best as the situation develops." "Can't you see, Mr. Dimmick," Rodney Cuff said impatiently, "he's going to pin the whole thing on Driscoll if he has a" --
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However, as a true scientist, Dr. Ford is utterly indifferent to public praise on the one hand, or public criticism on the other. He only wants to satisfy his own conscience. What people may then say or think is of no concern.
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people," he said, "try to put on a poker face when they are in a panic and when they try to put on a poker face they look sulky."
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The secretary was a good-looking girl--or would have been if she'd given herself a chance. Some discouraging experience in her background had made her feel that she couldn't be bothered with sex appeal, and so she slicked her hair back, used no make-up, and hated men.
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If you ask me, this younger generation is altogether too careless about their morals.
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calling for
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of the murder and whether he could possibly have been out there at the country club at the time the murder was committed. "There's not a chance. At the time the murder must have been committed, Hedley was in a drugstore having"
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