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Quote of the Day: Neal Manne

I recognize that my partners are essentially unmanageable.

Neal Manne, "Lawyer Limelight: Neal Manne", Lawdragon, May 20, 2012 (interview by Xenia Kobylarz).

Quote of the Day: Boyce F. Martin, Jr.

Note the dripping red wax on the seal.

All bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon.

Maker's Mark Distillery, Inc. v. Diageo N. Am., Inc., No. 10-5508, slip op. 4 (6th Cir. May 9, 2012) (affirming verdict and judgment that dripping-wax red seal on tequila bottles infringed trademark for same on bottles of bourbon) (per Boyce F. Martin, Jr., J.).

Quote of the Day: The Sherman Brothers

If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious.

Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".

[Note: Robert died on Monday. R.I.P.]

Quote of the Day: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote of the Day: Martin Luther King, Jr.

  
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-68).

I know you are asking today, "How long will it take?" Somebody’s asking, "How long will prejudice blind the visions of men, darken their understanding, and drive bright-eyed wisdom from her sacred throne?" Somebody’s asking, "When will wounded justice, lying prostrate on the streets of Selma and Birmingham and communities all over the South, be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men?" Somebody’s asking, "When will the radiant star of hope be plunged against the nocturnal bosom of this lonely night, plucked from weary souls with chains of fear and the manacles of death? How long will justice be crucified, and truth bear it?"

I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because "truth crushed to earth will rise again."

How long? Not long, because "no lie can live forever."

How long? Not long, because "you shall reap what you sow."

How long? Not long:

Truth forever on the scaffold,

Wrong forever on the throne,

Yet that scaffold sways the future,

And, behind the dim unknown,

Standeth God within the shadow,

Keeping watch above his own.

How long? Not long, because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

How long? Not long, because:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;

He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword;

His truth is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;

He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat.

O, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant my feet!

Our God is marching on.

Glory, hallelujah! Glory, hallelujah!

Glory, hallelujah! Glory, hallelujah!

His truth is marching on.

Martin Luther King, Jr., March 25, 1965, Montgomery, Alabama.  Watch it here.

 

Quote of the Day: Elena Kagan

Well, even if some regulation is permissible, the kind of regulation that the FCC has done here is regulation that gives it complete discretion as to what kind of speech to go after and what not to go after; that it has not tied itself in any way to any kinds of standards. And, it's, you know, evident in the notion that this -- the way that this policy seems to work, it's like nobody can use dirty words or nudity except for Steven Spielberg and that there's a lot of room here for FCC enforcement on the basis of what speech they think is kind of nice and proper and good. And so that's a serious First Amendment issue.

Justice Elena Kagan, FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., No. 10-1293, Transcript at 51:20-52:8 (emphasis ours).

[Hat tip to Adam Liptak.]

Quote of the Day: Bumper Sticker

    Honk if you love Jesus

    Text if you want to see Him

Quote of the Day: David Sipress

Caption for cartoon showing a woman watching TV:

Ask your doctor if taking a pill to solve all your problems is right for you.

David Sipress, New Yorker, May 7, 2007.

Quote of the Day: John L. Locke

It turns out, for example, that men with low-pitched voices have more than the usual amount of testosterone, which makes them unusually assertive.  No surprise that trial lawyers, who make their living by locking verbal horns in front of spectators, have 30 percent more testosterone than other lawyers.

John L. Locke,"Why Do Men and Women Talk Differently?", WSJ Speakeasy, Oct. 19, 2011.

Quote of the Day: Grover Brown

Another quirk of his at the time was that in general he refused to look at any memo submitted to him in writing if it exceeded one page. He required memos from his employees and advisors to be reduced to one page and he preferred that each memo deal only with one subject matter.

Oberly v. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 472 A.2d 366, 374 (Del. Ch. 1984) (Brown, C.) (describing one habit of late billionaire, magnate, and crazy person Howard Hughes).

Quote of the Day: Jonathan Weil

We had to save the banks in order to sue them.

Jonathan Weil, "Suing Banks is Next Best Thing to Letting Them Fail", Bloomberg, Sept. 8, 2011 (referring mainly to Federal Housing Finance Agency lawsuit against 17 banks relating to "sale of residential private-label mortgage-backed securities").