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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew mans nature, and

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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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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Religion
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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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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horses good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. – Aristotle

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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. – C. S. Lewis

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When Im off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. Its a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything – going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense. – Alanis Morissette

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