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If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

Calvin Trillin

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Calvin Trillin
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: December 5
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Kansas City
Missouri
Calvin Marshall Trillin
Humor
Law
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Many
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.
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Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.
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Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.
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Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.
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If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?
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