"After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable."

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Source : Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338, supreme.justia.com. 2007.

John Paul Stevens

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“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.”
“If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.”
“I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.”
“The more we try to improve our schools, the heavier the teaching task becomes; and the better our teaching methods the more difficult they are to apply.”
“The country has its charms-cheapness for one.”

Source : Robert Smith Surtees (1888). “Hillingdon Hall: Or, The Cockney Squire : a Tale of Country Life”
“Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind.”

Source : "Longbourn: A novel of Pride and Prejudice below stairs". Book by Jo Baker, 2013.
“No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.”
“Masturbation is good for the right arm.”

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