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If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
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-- Oscar Wilde Publications "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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