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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."

"It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it."
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"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."

"Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman."

"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."

"Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish."

"I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband."

"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."

"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
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