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Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason. – Robert Bork

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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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A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. – Robert Bork

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Society
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I think were living in a world where society is very difficult. – Steven Seagal

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The society based on production is only productive, not creative. – Albert Camus

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It is good for society to have this introspection. – Jacques Verges

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If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society. – Lewis Thomas

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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. – Bette Davis

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May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn. – Delmore Schwartz

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The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature

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I think being funny is not anyones first choice. – Woody Allen

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