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“A simple act of thoughtfulness had helped him to remember that he was a person of worth.”

Gerald Mullen, a retired Wesleyan minister on working with a Hospice patient.

“I don’t want to lock them up, but the pattern is really painful to me.”

Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones, over discrepancies in statements by former John Edwards aide Andrew Young on the handling of a purported sex tape featuring the former presidential candidate.

“A super-big injury case would be $20 million. But you could have millions of individual car owners who could [each] be owed $1,000. If I were Toyota, I’d be more worried about those cases.”

Tom Baker, a University of Pennsylvania law professor about why the class-action suits filed over sudden vehicle acceleration are such a big threat to Toyota .