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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him."

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

"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures."

"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."

"Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do."

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

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

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