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"It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good."

"I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing."

"He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in."

"Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error."

"I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks."

"Controversy is a last resort for the talentless."

"I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark."

"That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available."

"The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder."
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"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."

"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."

"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."

"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."

"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."

"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."

"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society."

"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."
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