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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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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and…
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It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has…
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness…
— Maggie Grace
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Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of…
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I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would…
— Rita Rudner
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It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply…
— Theodor Fontane
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It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education…
— Bernie Siegel
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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…
— William J. Brennan
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The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses...
— Lucy Larcom
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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that…
— George Eliot
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You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on…
— A. Whitney Brown
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