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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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Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.
— Alexander Eliot
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has…
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We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must…
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Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity…
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Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.
— Unknown Author
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The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe,…
— Kedar Joshi
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What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible,…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks…
— W.N.P. Barbellion
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It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.
— John Osborne
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