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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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"The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious."

"In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice."

"There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell."

"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."

"What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more."

"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

"We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion."

"Be different to make a difference."

"It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition."

"That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation."
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"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."

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

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

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it."

"A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."

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

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