Quote by Robert Bork
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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. – Robert Bork

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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. – Robert Bork

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Change
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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew mans nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. – Robert Bork

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Nature
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The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. – Robert Bork

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Equality
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Religion
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Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether its people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But its also a cause for war and bloodshed. – Josh Gad

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Religion

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs. – Richard Le Gallienne

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Religion

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions. – Karen Armstrong

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Religion

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. – Robert Heinlein, Notebooks of Lazarus Long

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Religion

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Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldnt want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know your bank account of knowledge is much richer. – William Holden

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Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. Thats my plan. – Jack Black

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diet

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it. – James Levine

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work