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In the "Bad Breaks" episode (season 2, episode 13) of the US TV series Burn Notice, protagonist Michael Westen uses the term "Operation Quicksilver" to indicate to his friend Sam that in order to overcome a bank robber without injuring any hostages, Sam must convince the bank robber that he is a powerful, dangerous man who owns the bank and who will maim and torture anyone involved in the robbery.
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“Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you ... take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.”
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—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)