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"One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this."
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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."
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Personal Development
"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."
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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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Personal Development
"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
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Personal Development
"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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Personal Development
"The only way to make a great thought great is to share it."
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Personal Development
"Language is the dress of thought."
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Personal Development
"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."
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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."
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"If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice."
Politics
"The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks."
Medical
"One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this."
Thought
"The "takings" clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals."
Politics
"Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century."
Politics
"They can't take your house and give it to the mayor's mistress, even if they pay you for it. But they can, apparently, take your house and tear it down to make room for a development of trendy shops and restaurants, a hotel and so on."
Development
"A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials."
Decision-Making
"It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause."
Equality
"So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned."
Politics
"Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property "without just compensation." The basic model of an unconstitutional "taking" would be if the government threw you out of your house."
Government
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