"Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society."

-- Michael Novak

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“The most interesting things are always happening behind one.”
“There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.”

Source : Benjamin N. Cardozo (2012). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, p.54, Courier Corporation
“Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.”
“"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.”

Source : Interview with Ben Fong-Torres, www.rollingstone.com. July 23, 1970.
“I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below--above the vaulted sky.”

Source : 'I Am' (1848)
“I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.”
“It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.”
“Economists often define their discipline as "the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends." But when resources or money really become scarce, economists call it a crisis and say that it's a question for politicians, not their own department.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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