"Abortion raises moral and spiritual questions over which honorable persons can disagree sincerely and profoundly. But those disagreements did not then and do not now relieve us of our duty to apply the Constitution faithfully."

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Source : "January 22, 1973: Roe v. Wade", www.cnn.com. March 10, 2003.

Harry A. Blackmun

#Spiritual Quotes #Abortion Quotes #Moral Quotes

“I'd love to take a year off and travel the world under the radar. I would love to do it really low key. I wouldn't need to stay in fancy hotels or anything; I just want to explore - but I don't know how I'd do it. Would I shave my head to try and go incognito? Ha ha! I'm not telling.”
“Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.”
“Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (1987). “For love & money: writing, reading, travelling, 1969-1987”
“With acting, you might have a month of very intense work, but youve got a lot of downtime as well.”
“The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 314, 1895.
“It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.”
“Footballers are going on strike? When can they start?”
“I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.”

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