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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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Vincent Bugliosi
Age: 80 †
Born: 1934
Born: August 18
Died: 2015
Died: June 6
Attorney
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Hibbing
Minnesota
Vincent T. Bugliosi Jr.
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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.
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And I believe the truth is mighty, and shines by its own light.
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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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I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.
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My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
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One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
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To form a strong opinion, you have to be knowledgeable about the subject. You have to have access to all the relevant information. You gotta be literally an expert.
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The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida.
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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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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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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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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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Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.
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One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.
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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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You don't know what I'm going to say until I say it and that's because I'm only looking at the facts and the evidence.
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The Bible puts forth a strong case for no free will and that's a real problem you know, because the justification for supposedly being punished after death is that you had free will. If you didn't have free will and you did what God predetermined, then how can he punish you?
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George Bush is guilty of murder for the deaths of over 4000 young American soldiers who have died in the Iraqi war.
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