If one is to say as the court does today that ALL executions of the mentally retarded are so morally repugnant as to violate our national standards of decency, surely the consensus it points to must be one that has set its righteous face against ALL such executions,
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Related All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY One of the concerns the state had about prior executions is that inmates were rendered too unconscio... NATHAN BARANKIN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL This is a stunning and very welcome development that puts on hold all Florida executions and may wel... ABE BONOWITZ He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as a... CRAIG GROESCHEL The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. No doubt many people have the feeling that to talk about death at all is, in effect, to conjure it u... RAYMOND MOODY The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics... MICHAEL CRICHTON The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right... WILLIAM K. SESSIONS Executions are legal in the state of California. CANDIS COHEN That kind of free-floating inherent power - the very thing we fought a revolution against - is the v... LAURENCE H. TRIBE The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY The vulgar modern argument used against religion, and lately against common decency, would be absolu... G.K. CHESTERTON Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior whereve... TED KOPPEL I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors. DEYTH BANGER The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS The Libyans will have to push this as far as they can, right up until the point when it looks like t... GEORGE JOFFE It could well be that she is in the tradition of Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, as the president... JAN LARUE I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes... KINKY FRIEDMAN If one shifts the center of gravity of life out of life into the “Beyond” – into nothingness �... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH will take a look at what they do propose. The main thing we're looking for is, if they are continuin... BILL HAYDEN A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor SENECA Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Many of us feel that the soul of Texas may be riding on this campaign. I would dearly love to be num... KINKY FRIEDMAN I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called c... MICHAEL CRICHTON What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans GEORGE CARLIN You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. GEORGE CARLIN The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of ra... OG MANDINO For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he ... CAMERON DOKEY The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are co... JOHN MORTIMER It is one of the world's greatest scandals, that must now be addressed, that 100 million children ar... GORDON BROWN If we had hustle points he'd be one of our leaders. He does all the little things that make a winnin... JODY BASS . . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable. TAYLOR CALDWELL Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching ... CAROLEE DEAN That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER There is no consensus as to what it is and how to diagnose it. People describe all sorts of symptoms... JULIAN ELLIOTT Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of l... WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN They've been molesting children, and now they say everybody does it ? It's morally repugnant. GWYN GREEN Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Some standards that are specific to the Internet need to be put in place for cases like this. An org... ROB LANCASTER Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Our conduct should be such that we are loved by one and all..the high as well as the low. It also de... ATHARVA VEDA Today the South is faced with fresh assaults upon its regime and its order of values. All the while ... RICHARD WEAVER [Conservatives Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas and liberals Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsbur... ANTHONY KENNEDY Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a... NORA SAKAVIC A righteous man does not conceive of himself as righteous; he is "only doing what anyone else would ... MARTIN BERMAN-GORVINE This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT Justice Thomas, my old boss, got 52 votes. Justice (Antonin) Scalia got 98 votes, ... But Justice Th... WENDY LONG Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be... VOLTAIRE I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget tha... PRIMO LEVI Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe... ISAAC ASIMOV Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe... ISAAC ASIMOV Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe... ISAAC ASIMOV All it has to do is put the pledge as it was before and say that we are one nation, indivisible, ins... MICHAEL NEWDOW Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constituti... LYMAN TRUMBULL The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognise su... KAZUO ISHIGURO Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but set his face steadfastly ... J. HERMAN RANDALL There are other ways to protect people in the state of Florida without resorting to this barbaric ki... HOWARD SIMON That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does n... CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-myster... E.E. CUMMINGS Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life. DEBASISH MRIDHA During his tenure as police chief there were credible reports of summary executions of gang members ... JOANNE MARINER Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, a... MORRIS F. COHEN Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say, anything you fee... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak. INDONESIA123 Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehens... HELEN SHARMAN Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England Old truths must be constantly re-stated if they are not to... RAYMOND CHAPMAN The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if... MICHAEL KORDA I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that de... T.H. WHITE We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say... SADDAM HUSSEIN
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