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"It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid."

"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."

"Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form."

"The Capitol was an occasion where you arrive at a sign in the road that says you have arrived at a place you may not have expected to be, but you know how you got here: Next!"

"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."

"Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed."
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"We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides."
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"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."

"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."

"I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage."

"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."

"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."
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