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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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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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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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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel. – Rudolf Arnheim

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Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society – as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. – David Bohm

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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. – Ralph Nader

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Youre scrutinized all through your life – youre scrutinized by your family, by yourself, by society, and your friends in a certain way, shape, or form. – Colin Farrell

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Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. – From a Washington Post reader submission word contest

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What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership. – Vicente Fox

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Its frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. – W. H. Auden

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I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldnt afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you cant afford power youre pretty broke. You endure it. – Jeremy Renner

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