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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow…
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit…
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
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Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to…
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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the…
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If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an…
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Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but…
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The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's…
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With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the…
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At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of…
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It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our…
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Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money…
— Rick Reilly
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In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies…
— Glenn Cunningham
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No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us.…
— Jim Butcher
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Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a…
— Buster Keaton
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Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.
— Jack Welch
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The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral…
— Samuel Pisar
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Adolescence is that time when I think, it can be- it's the cruelest place on Earth. It can really be heartless.
— Tori Amos
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
— Lord Byron
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The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.
— Irving Howe
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