Thane Rosenbaum quotes
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“Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational reponses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman.”
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“The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.”
-- Thane RosenbaumSource : "The 'Ready for Her Close-Up" Transcript" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. May 26, 2015.
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“Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law.”
-- Thane RosenbaumSource : "The 'Ready for Her Close-Up' Transcript" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. May 26, 2015.
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“Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.”
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“All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it’s disproportionate.”
-- Thane RosenbaumSource : "Op-Ed: The Nonexistent Line Between Justice And Revenge". "The Opinion Page" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 8, 2013.
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“Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.”
-- Thane Rosenbaum
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“To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.”
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“Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.”
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Source : Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.103, Simon and Schuster
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