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  • 19 - Lawyering Somewhere between Computation and the Will to Act

  • from Part VI - Fate of the Legal Professions
  • Edited by Larry A. DiMatteo, University of Florida, André Janssen, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Pietro Ortolani, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Francisco de Elizalde, Michel Cannarsa, Mateja Durovic, King's College London
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Lawyering in the Digital Age
    Published online:
    18 November 2021
    Print publication:
    25 November 2021, pp 327-357

  • Summary

    Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplet’s: “Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”