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When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.


Anne-Marie Slaughter

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KARIN SLAUGHTER Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't u...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.
KARIN SLAUGHTER Marriage. That’s what he called it, though men like Paul do not marry women. They own them. They c...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Optimism is a sliver of glass in your heart.
KARIN SLAUGHTER The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il...
MADAME MARIE ANNE DU DEFFAND What more would you have? He has invented history. [Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l...
MADAME MARIE ANNE DU DEFFAND The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with ...
MARIE CURIE My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;...
MARIE ANTOINETTE Smiling makes you and others feel better, and it makes you look younger.
MARIE HELVIN I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results wer...
MARIE CURIE The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with whic...
MARIE CURIE I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discove...
MARIE CURIE I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class...
MARIE CURIE If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructi...
MARIE CURIE I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a ...
MARIE CURIE When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of...
MARIE CURIE There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
MARIE CURIE