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"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."
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"Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sh*t and f*ck". ['Tolerance zero']"
"The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so that a visitor of another species might judge from the preoccupation of artist and audience that the seat of procreation lay in the mammaries. Alice Chicoy...who worked among the shining girls, was wide-hipped and sag-chested and she walked well back on her heels...She was not in the least jealous of the calendar girls and the Coca-Cola girls. She had never seen anyone like them, and she didn't think anyone ever had."
"Many buy gadgets they don't really need, with money they don't have, for people they don't actually care for, while infringing their corporeal and financial capacities, in order to pay doctors and psychiatrists.['Keeping up with the Joneses']"
"Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn't. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn't."
"There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth."
"Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible."
"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age."
"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate."
"Chomie' is South African homosexual men's unofficial name."
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"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."
"The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights."
"To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him."
"In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property."
"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life."
"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures."
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it."
"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
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