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The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any… — Potter Stewart
The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the… — Walter Lippmann
There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them;… — Matthew Henry
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and… — Charles Dickens
The [economic crisis] means that we have to address the challenges and the risks, and we need to take into account the level of resources.… — Stephane Abrial
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. — Mark Twain
It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories.… — Thomas Berry
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only… — Alexander Hamilton
In fact every belief is an obstacle. It does not even require your realization, since you are already who you are. But without realization, who… — Eckhart Tolle
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports… — Henry David Thoreau
Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath… — Aristotle
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters… — Florence Nightingale
If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That… — Marianne Williamson
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. — Felix Frankfurter
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter.… — Mark Twain
The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you… — Mark Twain
I have never understood why public opinion about European ideas should be taken into account. — Raymond Barre
Start early â€“ the sooner you start, the more you will have in your account when you retire. I actually waited until 30 before contributingâ€¦that… — Greg Meyer

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