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Once I take a case, I'm stuck with it.
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Stuck
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Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.
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Cases
Lawyer
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Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.
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Cases
Obviously
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We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.
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Lost
Prejudice
Trials
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We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.
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Merits
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Most people are balancing 10 or 20 priorities. I have two. My family and my work.
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Priorities
Family Work People
Balancing
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I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.
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Boys
Paper
Summer
Years
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My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in January of 1996.
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Concerned
January
Microsoft
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The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
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Home
Audio
Copying
Directly
Lawful
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I win virtually every case I should win, and I win a number of cases that people think I shouldn't.
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Cases
Virtually
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It is human nature to favor individuals and institutions who we know or for whom we feel responsible.
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Human Nature
Favor
Individuals
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It's a matter of priorities. Do you want to win, or would you like to sleep? Do you want to win, or would you like to take a day off?
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Priorities
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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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1960s
Boss
Partners
Moore
Partner
Tom
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We must bring the rule of law to its full fruition in the United States, and when we do, we will have achieved the goals and rhetoric of our Founding Fathers.
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Founding
Fruition
Rhetoric
Rule Of Law
Achieved
Fathers
Founding Fathers
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I don't really believe in moral victories. You can have them when you're dealing with public opinion, but in litigation, you want to win the case. I want to win.
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Moral
Opinion
Public Opinion
Case
Public
Dealing
Litigation
Victories
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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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Kids
Cents
Customers
Paper
Plus
Sunday
Years
Money Day Every Day
Delivered
Penny
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When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
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Important
Music Industry
Napster
Thinking
Music Me Internet
Case
First Thing
Struck
The First Thing
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In any profession, whether it's teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we're not going to evaluate those people on the merits, I think that's when the profession goes into decline.
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Decline
Doctors
Evaluate
Profession
Teachers
Goes
Lawyers
Merits
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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.
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Facts
Judging
Mind
Case
Judges
Minds
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Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
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Activity
Copyright
Infringement
Liability
Napster
Users
Vicarious
Alleged
Engage
Sharing
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Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.
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Technology
Ads
Data
New Technology
People
Work Technology People
Allow
Central
Classified
Provide
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It's terribly important that we extend the promise of equality that the Supreme Court and that the district court articulated in the DOMA case and in the Perry case to all Americans in all 50 states.
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Promise
Supreme
Supreme Court
All Americans
Articulated
District
Extend
Terribly
Perry
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It was important for the Supreme Court to say it’s a matter of constitutional law that everyone is equal, to say everyone is entitled to the dignity that comes from being married to the person you love.
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Important
Law
Matter
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We're now segregating our schools based on economics; we're segregating our schools based on where a child's parents live. And it has the same corrosive effect of destroying people's opportunity as racial segregation did.
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Destroying
Segregation
Corrosive
Racial
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You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.
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Competence
Doctors
Firm
Law
Merit
Tenure
Hospital
Parents
Law Firm
Regardless
Schools
Send
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One of the things that the court held in Brown v. Board of Education is that government can't impose a badge of inferiority on some of its citizens. Yet that is exactly what Proposition 8 does with respect to gay and lesbian couples in California.
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California
Citizens
Inferiority
Badge
Board
Couples
Exactly
Exactly What
Held
Impose
Lesbian
Proposition
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Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they have learned that they're just like us... And when you see that they're just like us, the rationale for discrimination melts away.
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Discrimination
Grandchildren
My Generation
Rationale
Generation
Grown
Unlike
Lesbian
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It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.
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Accurate
Complicated
Shade
Simple
Sustain
Truths
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While I agree completely that attracting good teachers is difficult, and we need to spend more time doing that - in part by paying them more money - I don't think there's any evidence for the idea that somehow tenure attracts good teachers. In fact, I think the evidence is to the contrary.
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Agree
Contrary
Evidence
Tenure
Time Good Money
Teachers
Attracting
Good Teachers
In Fact
Paying
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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.
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Affirming
Bill Of Rights
Constitution
Court
Court Decision
Decision
Fundamental Rights
Including
Legislation
Majority
Past
Protect
Rights
Strikes
Supreme
Supreme Court
Voters
Decisions
Bill
Discriminatory
Marry
Fundamental
Minority
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Embrace a diversity of ideas. Embrace the fact that you can disagree with people and not be disagreeable. Embrace the fact that you can find common ground - if you disagree on nine out of 10 things, but can find common ground on that 10th, maybe you can make progress. If you can find common ground, you can accomplish great things.
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Great
Accomplish
Common
Common Ground
Disagree
Disagreeable
Diversity
Embrace
Great Things
Ideas
Nine
People
Progress
Things
Make
Out
Find
Fact
Maybe
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A trial is a powerful vehicle to explain things. It is the most time that anybody spends really thinking about one thing. Unless you are the analyst on the National Security staff that's assigned to monitor Putin, and that's all you do, day in and day out, very few people ever spend the time on a single subject that is spent during trial.
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National Security
Putin
Staff
Vehicle
Time Thinking Day
Analyst
Assigned
Explain
Few People
Monitor
Trial
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I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our history, an awful lot of what we've fought over, struggled for, is the right of people to vote. That's what the civil-rights movement was, at its bottom, about. At the fundamental level, democracy means a government in which the people vote.
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Rights
Thinking
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