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The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs. — Learned Hand

Life is a lesson, when you could get it over by your hands, means you just learned it well. — Kambiz Shabankareh

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives. — Learned Hand

The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... — Learned Hand

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask. — Learned Hand

There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. — Learned Hand

Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it. — Learned Hand

People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand. — Peter Steele

I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now? — Jack Levine

That's when he lifted up a black pistol. I later learned it was a Colt .45. Some of the girls screamed. Moniba tells me I squeezed her hand. — Malala Yousafzai

A hard lesson had been learned
that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits. — Lois Lenski

We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays. — Learned Hand

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus. — Damian Lewis

The art of publicity is a black art. — Learned Hand

I reached across the table and set my hand on his. I had no words to offer him. We were meant to make mistakes. We learned from them. — M.J. Haag

The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your foreign minister, who came to Texas. — George W. Bush

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. — Learned Hand

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. — Learned Hand

She learned to catch a moment in her hand before it flew away and hold it tightly while she had the chance. — Beth Moore

Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am. — Learned Hand

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right. — Learned Hand

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us. — Learned Hand

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. — Learned Hand

All learned people learn Latin. It's bound to come in useful. Fairy tales, on the other hand, are about real life. — Monica Furlong

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage. — Learned Hand

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few. — Learned Hand

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her. — Alice Walker

In the fourth grade, I learned how to fake walking into a door. You know, you hit it with your hand and snap your head back. The girls loved it. — Will Ferrell

We all learned to think before we spoke and to limit what we said to the problem at hand. — Richard H. O'Kane

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments. — Tulsi Gabbard

There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won. — Learned Hand

Life is not a thing of knowing only
nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions. — Learned Hand

But what I learned from the Widow's Hand is that whose who would be gods fear no one so much as other potential deities — Salman Rushdie

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws. — Learned Hand

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. — Learned Hand

I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me ... I learned my lesson. — Aaron Carter

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion. — Learned Hand

I've learned ... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand. — Andy Rooney

I was hesitant to go around and shake hands, just go up and stick my hand out to strangers. Then I learned to stick my hand out. — Jim Edgar

I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me. — Wynonna Judd

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer. — Learned Hand

I've learned to dance with a hand in my pants. — Billy Joel

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture. — Learned Hand

Thou shalt not ration justice. — Learned Hand

Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know. — Learned Hand

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal — Learned Hand

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment. — Learned Hand

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. — Learned Hand

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak. — Learned Hand

I learned about the right jack, double runs, being stuck in the mudhole, and what Andy called "mystic nineteen" - the so-called impossible hand. — Stephen King

The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. — Learned Hand

Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law. — Learned Hand

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. — Christopher Dodd

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions. — Joey Skaggs

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice. — Learned Hand

For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not. — Learned Hand

Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution. — Learned Hand

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. — Learned Hand

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. — Learned Hand

I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine. — Shannon Celebi

We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought. — Learned Hand

Over the years, I've learned, focus on the job at hand, and opportunities will open after. — Antonio Villaraigosa

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through. — Learned Hand

I think Judge Learned Hand was a cultured, intelligent man. — William S. Burroughs

Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves. — Learned Hand

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. — Learned Hand

Since we are men, we will play the part of Man. — Learned Hand

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. — Learned Hand

like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand. — Cormac McCarthy

The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned on when he wins. — Learned Hand

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency. — Learned Hand