"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears……" — William J. Brennan
"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment."
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43 Quotes by William J. Brennan
William J. Brennan has 43 quotes on this site.
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights…
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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…
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient…
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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…
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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit…
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If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression…
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Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory…
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The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the…
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With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that…
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At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the…
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It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own,…
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Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp…
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More Accumulate Quotes
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one of 265 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
— Charles Babbage
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
— Arthur Bloch
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I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that…
— Jo Brand
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Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.
— David Byrne
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
— Andrew Carnegie
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
— Noam Chomsky
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We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's…
— Arianna Huffington
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
— A J P Taylor
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The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
— Wayne Dyer
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Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the…
— Al Gore
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