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advocate
«The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin»
Author: Alexander Cockburn
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«When dealing with a legal matter - always remember that you are your own best advocate. No one will care as much about the case as you do. Use lawyers but remember - you must take primary responsibility for a successful outcome.»
«To get the sympathy of the Tribunal for himself ought always to be one of the first objects of the advocate»
«No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home or in the office»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
| About:
Jobs,
Women,
Work
| Keywords:
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«I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Alcohol,
Drugs,
Insanity,
Violence
| Keywords:
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«Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the `common man'.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
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«Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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«Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless»
«The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathizes with their just feelings»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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«I know it will give great offense to the clergy, but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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