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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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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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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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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. – Gertrude Stein

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We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves. – Marilyn Manson

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It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age. – Henry Rollins

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. – Confucius

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In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and… mothers. Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it. – Billy Cosby

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