“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.” William Faulkner
Redolent Strongly reminiscent or suggestive of (something).
Demur Raise doubts or objections or show reluctance. Verb, Latin.
What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, It’s with O’Leary in the grave.
Coruscation (Of light) Flash or sparkle.
Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past. Tryon Edwards, theologian
Be not simply good – be good for something. Henry David Thoreau
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch
You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about. Willy Wonka, paraphrasing a line from Helaire Beloc’s “The Microbe” (1897)
My clients see it all the time. They look at defenses raised in writing by the other side and say things like, “What does that mean?” My typical response to my clients (without waiving any attorney-client privilege) is usually, “Nothing. Absolutely nothing.” “Barebone affirmative defenses have always been deficient,” he told the court. To show […]
