William O. Douglas Quotes
One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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I know about raising money.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, 'taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power.' History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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President Obama likes to talk about winning the future. But someone needs to tell him: You can't win the prosperity of tomorrow if you're mortgaging it to pay for the big government programs of today.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.
