"The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence."

-- Byron White

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“There are people doing yoga in New York, dancing around; that's the power of India. You go to a nightclub somewhere in Spain and there's Amitabh Bachchan on the screen there, dancing around. That's the power of India. That's the power of Indian people.”
“Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To me, it seems self-evident that everyone lives in the real world - we all breathe real oxygen, eat real food, the earth under our feet feels equally solid to all of us. But clearly these people have a far more tightly circumscribed definition of reality, one that I find deeply mysterious, and an almost pathologically intense need to bring others into line with that definition.”
“On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”
“The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist.”
“I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.”
“I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.”

Source : "Exclusive: Gold Medal Winner Hannah Kearney On Her Olympic Experience" by Hannah Kearney, www.mtv.com. March 1, 2010.
“The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.”
“The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.”

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