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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

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

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

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


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


"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."


"Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely."


"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."


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