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The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

My job is to write opinions. I decide cases and write opinions. It is not to respond to idiocy and critics who make statements that are unfounded. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't have constructive criticisms, but it should be constructive.

Malaria is a disease that kills one to three million people a year. 300 to 500 million cases are reported. It's estimated that Africa loses about 13 billion dollars a year to the disease. Five dollars can save a life. We can send people to the moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get five-dollar nets to 500 million people?

Agents who have left the Secret Service to join other federal law enforcement agencies report that training in firearms and counterterrorism tactics in those agencies in many cases far exceeds the quality of what the Secret Service offered.

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.

Every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.

When I worked in the Department of Justice, in the office of the solicitor general, it was my job to argue cases for the United States before the Supreme court. I always found it very moving to stand before the justices and say, 'I speak for my country.'

Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, for those who do not respond to alternative forms of interventions.

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

Many persons swear by positive thinking, and quite a few have been helped by it. Nevertheless, it is not a very effective tool and can be downright harmful in some cases.

I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of autism, and they make it impossible to operate in the environment where you're supposed to be social.

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

I often get too emotionally involved in my cases.

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.

Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.

So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it.

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

The symptoms of food poisoning often don't appear for days after the contaminated meal was eaten. As a result, most cases of food poisoning are never properly diagnosed.

Well, for me it really wasn't a case of deciding to be an astronaut.

In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

But, you know, all I can do is submit my budget and then make the case to the Legislature to act.

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Our young immigrants have a lot to offer. They are motivated and hard-working, and in many cases have already contributed significantly to our society - by excelling in school, by volunteering in their communities, or by serving in the military.

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.

The true test of whether Mr. Obama has improved on the Bush era lies in how his administration justifies its decisions on the 241 remaining Guantanamo detainees, whose cases will now be evaluated internally and reviewed by the courts.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.

A case of can't do with, can't do without, that's why I married him again.

America is the only high income nation without a paid family leave program. This means that if you or a family member gets sick, there is no guarantee that you can take the time you need to take care of yourself or your loved one, leaving already vulnerable families in the position of making hard decisions in cases of illness.

My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not the only factor. If it was the only factor, then, you know, we wouldn't have had Roe vs. Wade. We wouldn't have had Griswold. We wouldn't have had Lawrence. We wouldn't have had all these cases which the Left love.

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.

In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

The problem with fine art is that in most cases people have to make a special excursion to go and look at it: they can't afford to own it. So it isn't really part of their life in the way that music can be.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

We rest our case on the production numbers.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community.

I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.

I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we'd initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Determining how many asbestos suits have been filed or how much companies have spent to resolve them is difficult. Cases are filed in state and federal courts, and many companies do not disclose their spending on settlements.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.

My advice to you is this. Keep your famous good humor, take your time, and explain the procedural posture of the cases and exactly how you ruled as a judge, or the position you took as a lawyer. Americans know these matters are often complex and will appreciate your answers.

Mumps have been in Iowa for the last 10 years, but this year we've had more mumps cases than we've had in the last 10 years combined.

One of the characteristics of the cases that you'll see on 'Curtis Court,'

One of the great things about working at a large international law firm is the very deep resources. You have the luxury of taking on cases you've never handled before.

On holidays, like July 4th, you did double. There were days when I (delivered) over 2,000 cases of beer.

Personally, I think it is something that should only be done in those cases where there is clear and convincing evidence the (drugs in the) house is being used for something more than personal use,

One of the reasons we signed onto this is it puts all those cases behind us and lets us focus on the future.

One of them, a 14-year-old boy, is in the most serious situation, others are in stable condition. I hope they are not diagnosed with bird flu. But they are suspected cases of bird flu since they ate a sick chicken and they were in close contact with fowl.

One of the big problems was I couldn't cover all the cases in my area.

On the 20th of May, 1747, I took twelve patients in the scurvy on board the Salisbury at sea. Their cases were as similar as I could have them.

On one hand, given the 800-plus cases we have, this is a serious situation. On the same token, we have 2.8 million people in Iowa, so the relative risk of any single visitor getting mumps is extremely low.

Ninety-five percent of the cases are settled by plea agreement, ... You couldn't run a court system otherwise.

I would expect we will likely see some other cases that will be attributed to the same offender.

If we don't find new cases by the end of this month, the government will declare all zones poultry-disease free.

If we don't make the change, rate cases will have to happen faster. There is a cost to a rate case. I would prefer not to have huge rate cases every two years.

If we don't see human cases next week that could have resulted from the eighth of August rainfall, I'd say Pinellas is winding down,

Nobody considers that a very healthy situation. You have a number of very high-profile, important cases coming this next term that, from the perspective of this administration, were decided incorrectly in the courts below. You need five justices to reverse. A 4-4 tie just means the decision below is affirmed.