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Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.


Judith Wright

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JUDITH YOUNG Transfer of title has been completed, the Island corridor is now Island-owned and it's connecting co...
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JUDITH GUEST The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, inclu...
JUDITH BUTLER The problem with beards is the association with the '60s and '70s - the beatnik and hippie movement,...
JUDITH RASBAND We were not expecting to get caught up in the global warming debate when we published our initial re...
JUDITH CURRY While once the Judicial Conference was much more circumscribed.
JUDITH RESNIK Chief Justice Rehnquist was brilliant at enhancing that position, and Congress has played a major ro...
JUDITH RESNIK There are many innovations that have been proposed. There is a proposition that life tenure means th...
JUDITH RESNIK Chief Justice (William) Rehnquist was brilliant at enhancing that position, and Congress has played ...
JUDITH RESNIK People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of saf...
JUDITH GUEST He hangs on now, pressing his hand lightly against the wall, below the window, waiting for the famil...
JUDITH GUEST Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
JUDITH GUEST Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.
JUDITH MARTIN [How much to prescribe is an open question.] The absurdity of this is that a lot of times we're put ...
JUDITH OWENS It was very bitter for me to see this happen all over again. And I felt I had to do something.
JUDITH KARPOVA Toward the 1890s, you start seeing more lawyers who are homegrown. Still, for many years, they could...
JUDITH KILPATRICK Love and Shrimp.
JUDITH VIORST I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife’s husband.
JUDITH VIORST