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Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons. – Iain Banks

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A lot of what the Culture is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens. – Iain Banks

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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesnt matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state. – Iain Banks

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The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, theyre going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him. – Jon Stewart

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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you dont have to declare war. Youre just at war and we did that, which is not legal. – Val Kilmer

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Were involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles. – Bill Scott

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I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. – John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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