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Legal writing

No society, certainly not a large and heterogenous one, can fail in time to explode if it is deprived of the arts of compromise, if it knows no ways of muddling through. No good society can be unprincipled; and no viable society can be principle-ridden.

Alexander M. Bickel

The Least Dangerous Branch · 1962

★ 5.0

Interview · Magazine

For the sublime and the beautiful and interesting, you don't have to look far away.

Hedda Sterne

2007

★ 3.6

Nobel Prize Lecture · Speech

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Elie Wiesel

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986 · 1986

★ 3.5

Newspaper

God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here.

Elie Wiesel

The Times of London · 1995

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass-which is better than trying to fill them.

Emil Cioran

The Trouble With Being Born · 1973

★ 3.5

Interview · Magazine

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death. It's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

U.S. News and World Report · 1986

★ 3.5

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