Benjamin Wittes Quotes
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I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
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Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.
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I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
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Dimensionless constants in the laws of nature, which from the purely logical point of view can just as well have different values, should not exist.
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Abortion is the taking of a life.
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I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.
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Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.
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The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.
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Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
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A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.
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Compared to what comics say today, I'm a monk, but in those days, it was unheard of to make fun of people like I did. Of course, they exaggerated how outrageous I really was.
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Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
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I think it'll help. There's nowhere else to eat but IHOP.
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Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.
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I generally favor permissive abortion laws.
