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Quote by Robert Bork
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constituti

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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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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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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Society
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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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There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. – Euripedes

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You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. Thats what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, dont go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because theyre not going to have that imagination. – Jennifer Lopez

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Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change. – Robert Mugabe

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Change

I dont think Im really open to having Washington change me. – Rand Paul

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