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"An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement."
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"Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long, there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so."
"A successful person's life is made up of a time when he gets out of bed, and a time he goes to bed; and in-between them is filled up with a time that he makes sure something definitely happened!"
"Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true."
"Many people do not understand why they cannot do well in their lives, even with a lot of training, using short- term and long term plans and most importantly having a huge potential."
"Great men look greater than yesterday."
"Every man has a need to be great at something."
"My success has nothing to do with opportunities or luck, I just keep doing things until it is done."
"What you conquer in your youth is your trophy in adulthood."
"The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it."
"When you can actually measure your day by how much time is converted into products, then you are a great force on the earth."
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"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."
"The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance."
"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself."
"Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason."
"Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere."
"When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions."
"In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge."
"The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law."
"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."
"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."
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