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"So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that revealed a bodily imperfection. A team won a sporting event, but another team lost.' I smiled. 'You can't go disappearing on everybody like this, Hazel. You miss too much."

"A society becomes a breeding ground of violence and terrorism when it closes its door to new ideas and forces the citizens to live in the prison of conforming thoughts."

"Oh shit did you just dis the feminine genderI'll pummel your ass then stick you in a blenderYou think I like Tori and Ani so I can't rhymeBut I got flow like Ghostbusters got slimeObjectify women and it's fuckin' onYou'll be dead and gone like ancient Babylon."

"I was pure, before you defiled me, and don't you forget it. As though the concept of purity is anything more than the construct of selfish, competitive men stampeding toward the women to call dibs. I'll be damned if I'm not worth stampeding toward, but the prize had better be me, hymen or no hymen."
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"The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights."

"In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property."

"The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion."

"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."

"To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him."

"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life."

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it."

"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures."
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