“ The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. ”
- Alexander Haig- Copy
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“ Someday, someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well. ”
- Barbara Bush- Copy
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“ I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge, too; I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife — he was specially picked. ”
- Alphonse Karr- Copy
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“ Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them. ”
- Eliza Farnham- Copy
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“ The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
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“ In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else. ”
- Pat Colander- Copy
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“ The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
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“ The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated Twentieth Century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudo-events, science and pornography… ”
- J. G. Ballard- Copy
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