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Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

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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 will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.
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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.
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I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.
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Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.
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