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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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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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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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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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Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.
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There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.
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The history of skiing is important to me.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
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On his bold visage middle ageHad slightly pressed its signet sage,Yet had not quenched the open truthAnd fiery vehemence of youth;Forward and frolic glee was there,The will to do, the soul to dare,The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,Of hasty love or headlong ire.
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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.
