"A law can be both economic folly and constitutional."

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"A law can be both economic folly and constitutional."

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"A good folly is worth what you pay for it."

George Ade, American Playwright

Folly, Worth

"If he had known unstructured space is a delugeand stocked his log house-boat with all the animals even the wolves, he might have floated. But obstinate hestated, The land is solid and stamped, watching his foot sink down through the stone up to his knee. From "Progressive insanities of a pioneer."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"I'm the king of bad ideas."

Lisa Kessler, American Author

Folly, Failure, Humor, Self-Awareness, Creativity

"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Author

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"One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Folly, Instinct, Action, Judgment, Reaction

"Folly always knows the answer."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense."

Andrew Coyle Bradley, American Judge

Folly, Language, Selfishness, Sense

"It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery."

Jonathan Mayhew, American Clergyman

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State

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Sex

"If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless."

Experience

"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all."

Constitution

"Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?"

Public

"If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility."

Death

"In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along."

Family

"A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement."

Purpose

"A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable."

Nothing

"Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?"

Lawyers