"To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an……" — John Paul Stevens
"To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country."
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20 Quotes by John Paul Stevens
John Paul Stevens has 20 quotes on this site.
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I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the…
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But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better…
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Even in high school, a rule that permits only one point of view to be expressed is less likely to…
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Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their…
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Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept…
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As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of…
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It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure…
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Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement…
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When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend…
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Our love cannot be measured, it just is.
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The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.
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The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
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More Alien Quotes
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one of 539 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
— Rudolf Arnheim
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages…
— Russell Baker
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
— Aeschylus
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
— Orson Scott Card
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
— Julian Casablancas
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
— Noam Chomsky
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
— Sandra Cisneros
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I feel... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!
— Pamela Anderson
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
— James Madison
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