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All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

Vincent Bugliosi

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Vincent Bugliosi
Age: 80 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 18
Died: 2015
Died: June 6
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Vincent T. Bugliosi Jr.
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I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.
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When you look at the basis for the immortality of the soul, you have these foundationless speculations and really, no intelligent reason for believing that there's life after death.
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Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
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Doubt . . . impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.
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I'm not one of these people who says, 'I don't watch TV much.' Or looks down their nose at TV and they watch it for 20, 30 hours a week. I'm so busy. I work seven days a week that I just don't watch TV.
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Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.
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I only form an opinion when I feel that I've done sufficient research and have sufficient access to information.
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If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.
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Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.
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A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.
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I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world.
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I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.
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My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.
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I never, never ever make a charge without supporting it. You may not agree with me, but I always offer tremendous amount of support.
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The Bible, contrary to what people think, actually puts forth a strong case for no free will, no free will.
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[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.
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When I do form an opinion, I'm very aggressive about it. But I don't form that opinion until I've done a tremendous amount of work.
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