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There is no such thing as a false idea.

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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…
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit…
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to…
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the…
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an…
Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but…
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's…
With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the…
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of…
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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Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty. — Isla Fisher
There is no such thing as a false idea. — William J. Brennan
A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective. — A. D. Gordon
The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. — Robert A. Heinlein
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes… — Guy Debord
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It is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject… — Joseph Smith, Jr.

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