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I feel like this journal needs a disclaimer lately.

Open to the public, free of charge, discussion of legal and environmental issues.

Coming soon, a chronicle of my attempt to implement the 50 tips in Go Green, Live Rich, in which I excoriate you to do the same.

Behind the curtain, for friends only, obsessive ranting about such topics as the 2008 bar exam, graduate school, weddings, family dysfunction, travel experiences and long distance dating.

I reserve the right to change the topics herein contained at will and without disclosure or warning. I make no warranties as to the amusement or informational content of this blog.

If you are amendable to these conditions, by all means, enjoy!

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"Some people came here to die, we came here to live. There's a hope in our hearts, there's a future in our souls." - Jayhawks

"Don't go through life, grow through life." - Eric Butterworth

"Only the educated are free." - Epictetus

"We are what we believe we are." - C.S. Lewis

"The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions." - Mike Krzyzewski

"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom." - Walter Benjamin

"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think." - Clarence Darrow

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." John Ruskin

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much." William Hazlitt

"By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out."
Richard Dawkins

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
- John Mitchell

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."
- Freud

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." --Archbishop Desmond Tutu

"Society wins not only when the guilty are convicted but when criminal trials are fair; our system of the administration of justice suffers when any accused is treated unfairly."
- Justice Douglas in Brady v Maryland, US Supreme Court decision, 373 U.S. 83, 87-88 (1963)

"Justice is truth in action."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing."

– Ronald Reagan, 40th US president

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal,
or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice,
he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."

- Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968, American Attorney General, Senator)

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
--Rev. William Sloane Coffin

"Tough times never last, tough people do."

-Robert Schuller

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

– Seneca

"Fear always springs from ignorance."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom."
- Walter Benjamin

"Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend."

- Abraham Lincoln

"And do as adversaries do in law, - Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends." --- William Shakespeare

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