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Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Whatever is done for men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves; and where men are
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“Written rules, produced by a government as laws, or produced by private parties as contracts or other rules, are best understood as a specification about how people will behave in the future, or at least about the consequences of certain behavior in the future.”
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
“Law is important because, in a society based on the rule of law, it channels the force of the state.”
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
“In general terms, we can say that lawyers analyze and argue about what the rules are and how they apply to particular situations.”
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
“the work of the lawyer is to argue about and determine what the applicable law is, what the facts are, and how the facts fit into the applicable law.”
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
“By making the weaker argument in this sense appear the stronger, lawyers or other sophists may subvert first principles, truth, or public policy.”
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
― The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win
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