Invalid Quotes
56 quotes by 52 authors
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
— C.S. Lewis
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A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver…
— Potter Stewart
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The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage…
— Anthony Kennedy
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I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of…
— George H. Smith
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There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty…
— Lysander Spooner
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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
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Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken…
— James Madison
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The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.
— Juliette Lewis
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To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or…
— Woody Allen
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He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is…
— Ahmad ibn Rustah
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Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray, was always his…
— Thomas Paine
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Either this is logical and true, or else the principles on which economic science is based are invalid.
— Gustave de Molinari
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Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between…
— Stephen Potter
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EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I taught what was clear in Acts 11:26: SAVED = CHRISTIAN = DISCIPLE, simply meaning that you cannot be saved and you cannot be a…
— Kip McKean
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People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man instead.…
— Madsen Pirie
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If a man’s house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we…
— Vinoba Bhave
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In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX chapels suffered or…
— Malachi Martin
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If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished.
— Charles Darwin
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