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"Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause."
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"I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin."

"What can't you bear?''This island,' Gabe says. He breathes a long pause between every word he says. 'That house you and Finn are in. People talking. The fish - goddamn fish. I'll smell like them for the rest of my life. The horses. Everything. I can't do it any more.'. . . It feels like he's confessed that he's dying of a disease I've never heard of, with symptoms I can't see."

"I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon..."

"My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit."

"The one whose 'alochana (confession of mistakes), pratikraman (asking for forgiveness) and pratyakhyan (avowal to never repeat the mistake)' are true (done correctly), he is bound to attain the knowledge of the Self (attain self realization)."

"I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment."

"If it's me who loves you, you'll know, as I will tell it you in my own words."

"If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest."

"Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession."

"You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards."
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"No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas."

"Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages."

"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment."

"Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials."

"The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting."

"We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time."

"Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest."

"We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans."

"Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause."
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