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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
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"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."


"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."


"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents."


"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."


"Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics."
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