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William J. Brennan has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases…
— Margaret Atwood
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Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing
— Martin Luther
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But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you…
— James Taylor
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I was immediately taken with Geoff Muldaur's rich soulful voice, masterful phrasing and guitar playing when I first heard him.
— Lucinda Williams
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Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft…
— Paul Robeson
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"I want you to spend the night," you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said,…
— David Levithan
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Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided."Truth: Obama later said, "This was an example where we had…
— Barack Obama
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The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.
— Mark Twain
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A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing…
— Steve Vai
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The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have…
— Colin Quinn
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Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad…
— William J. Brennan
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The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.…
— Kenny Smith
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