"The issue presented is whether the Federal Constitution confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy, and hence invalidates the laws of the many States that still make such conduct illegal, and have done so for a very long time.... Respondent would have us announce, as the Court of Appeals did, a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do."

-- Byron White

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“Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.”
“People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.”

Source : Karen Kingsbury (2014). “Fifteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.343, Simon and Schuster
“It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.”
“I can be mean. Not dirty. But very mean.”
“Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.”
“The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.”

Source : Cornelia Stratton Parker (1934). “Wanderer's Circle”
“If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself”
“I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.”

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