Bernard Meltzer Quotes

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

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  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Friends

• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

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  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in True, Friend

• Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Happiness

• Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words.

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  Topics in Friendship

• If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Original, Try

• Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Speak

• If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along – whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Disagree

• Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Blessed

• Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Talents

• We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Topics in Love

• When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.

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  Topics in Future, Past

  Tags in Change, Forgive, Way, Sure

• Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Enjoy, Like

Bernard Meltzer (12)

Birth:	2nd May, 1916
Death:	25th March, 1998
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer

About

Bernard Meltzer, a University of Chicago and Harvard Law School graduate, is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Chicago Law School. Joined the Law School faculty in 1946 after he served as Assistant Trial Counsel, United States Prosecution Staff, International War Crimes, Nuremberg. He is the author of "The Nuremberg Trial: A Prosecutor's Perspective," in the Journal of Genocide Research. He served as legal consultant to the National Defense Commission until 1941 when he was named Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Acting Head of Foreign Funds Control Division for the Department of State.

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