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"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."
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"Be different to make a difference."

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."

"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."

"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature."

"Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference."

"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight."

"The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back."

"All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers."

"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds."

"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."
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"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."

"The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion."

"To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him."

"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures."

"In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property."

"The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights."

"Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life."
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