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Louis Nizer

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Quotes by Louis Nizer

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We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.
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A man’s life is colored by the dye of his imagination.
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Yes, there’s such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o’clock in the morning. You’ll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o’clock in the morning.
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Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else – felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance – is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.
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True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.
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A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.
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The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.
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Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.
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Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.
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Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
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