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"We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation."
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"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there."
"Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought."
"There is an undeniable truth that as one progresses further in his understanding of a craft the rest of his life progresses along with it. This symbiotic relationship between all things is experienced on a daily basis, but rarely articulated through conscious thought."
"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."
"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better."
"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"
"Out of clutter, find simplicity."
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"Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor."
"Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred."
"We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet."
"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."
"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance."
"No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment."
"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
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