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The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then attempting to write an opinion which explains the difference between that nude and some other nude has elements of low comedy.

Thurman Arnold

Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on.

Thurman Arnold

No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.

Thurman Arnold

Definition is ordinarily supposed to produce clarity in thinking. It is not generally recognized that the more we define our terms the less descriptive they become and the more difficulty we have in using them.

Thurman Arnold

Thurman Arnold

Thurman Arnold

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Born: June 2, 1891

Died: November 7, 1969 (aged 78)

Bio: Thurman Wesley Arnold was an iconoclastic Washington, D.C. lawyer. He was best known for his trust-busting campaign as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Department of Justice from 1938 to 1943.

Known for:

The Folklore of Capitalism (1937)
The Bottlenecks of Business (1940)

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