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The court of last resort is no longer the Supreme Court. It's 'Nightline.'

Alan Dershowitz

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Alan Dershowitz
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 1
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Brooklyn
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Alan M. Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz
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I have always considered Pascal's Wager a questionable bet to place. Any God worth believing in would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.
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I'm worried about privacy because of the young people who don't give a damn about their privacy, who are prepared to put their entire private lives online. They put stuff on Facebook that 15 years from now will prevent them from getting the jobs they want. They don't understand that they are mortgaging their future for a quick laugh from a friend.
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The Internet knows no national borders.
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A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
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Any human being has private thoughts.
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I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.
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The struggle for morality never stays won. It's always in process.
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I learn from experience.
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Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.
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We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.
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Nobody wants justice.
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Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
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I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.
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The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
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When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum, in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today and it's called the Internet.
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No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.
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I love discomfort. I mean, my whole life is discomfort. One reason I can never retire is that the idea of just sitting on the beach totally comfortable is not a desideratum in my life. I like ambiguity, I like conflict, I like uncertainly.
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I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.
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The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.
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