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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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Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
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The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.
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Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a…
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Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is…
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If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same…
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Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't…
— Judith Orloff
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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people…
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We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote…
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Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive…
— Confucius
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Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind…
— Rumi
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After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making…
— Ron Paul
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