Clauses Quotes
90 quotes by 82 authors
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Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals…
— Albert Ellis
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Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to…
— Bill Maher
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Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that…
— Philip Yancey
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If I were in Congress in 1996, I would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which used Congress's constitutional authority to define what…
— Ron Paul
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I do feel I was overshadowed by some of those guys (who took steroids) . . . I had a diminished-skills clause written in after…
— Frank Thomas
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The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation…
— Ted Olson
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The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process…
— Byron White
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Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other,…
— Kenneth Lee Pike
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The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
— Michael Kinsley
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When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind…
— Leonard Maltin
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The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign…
— Fredric Jameson
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact…
— Harold H. Greene
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Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one…
— Oliver Wolcott
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I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.
— Bobby Bonilla
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The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins…
— Robertson Davies
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The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal…
— Michael Kinsley
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There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause
— Cass Sunstein
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But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, health care or retirement benefits? The answer, quite clearly,…
— Larry Elder
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Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions…
— Hjalmar Branting
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