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"We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation."
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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."
"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."
"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."
"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."
"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."
"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."
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"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."
"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."
"The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions."
"At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections."
"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"
"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor."
"The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government."
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