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The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in…

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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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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. — Samuel Butler
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of… — Oleg Cassini
Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each… — Ayah Bdeir
Independence is not a static condition; it is a continuous conquest, and in order to reach not only freedom, but also strength,… — Maria Montessori
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied… — Jacques Barzun
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A… — Carl Sagan
Life is not static. If life were static there would be no need for meditation. The mind would do. Then you could… — Rajneesh
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence… — Freya Stark
The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny… — Susan Faludi
Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities… — Ernest King

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