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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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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs…
— Cleveland Abbe
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Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of…
— Karl Popper
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The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala.…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Do not expect to be hailed as a hero when you make your great discovery. More likely you will be a ratbag-maybe…
— Samuel Warren Carey
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My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty…
— Dalai Lama
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Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned…
— Unknown Author
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I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of…
— Daniel Libeskind
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Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or…
— Adyashanti
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'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.
— Emma Goldman
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Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves…
— William J. Brennan
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The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death…
— Byron White
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