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The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was e

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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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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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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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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I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for womens equality and liberation. – Carre Otis

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Equal distribution of wealth does not mean we all should be millionaires — it only means no one should die of hunger. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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A fundamentalist cant bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality. – Jimmy Carter

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Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven. Dignity before God depends, not on sex, but on purity and luminosity of heart. Human virtues belong equally to all! – Abdul-Baha

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Loss means losing what was We want to change but we dont want to lose. Without time for loss, we dont have time for soul. – James Hillman

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I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. – Matthew Henry

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If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. – Annie Dillard, “Seeing,” Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974

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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and thats never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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