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I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.

Alan Dershowitz

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Alan Dershowitz
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 1
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The law is agnostic about truth.
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Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.
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Question authority but, raise your hand first.
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Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
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I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.
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If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.
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In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.
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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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I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.
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Ideas don't desert you ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.
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I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.
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Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.
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Any human being has private thoughts.
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Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had the capacity to do so.
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The Internet knows no national borders.
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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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I learn from experience.
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