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The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.


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NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN He doesn't feel it is a constitutional crisis. It is a disagreement that he will work to resolve.
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ABBE LOWELL Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
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CHARLES HAYES I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
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GENMICHAEL HAYDEN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Yet, today, we see what is becoming a constitutional crisis which is completely unprecedented, and t...
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LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know...
F.A. HAYEK This is a significant attack on science. They really are advancing a sectarian religious view. They'...
JACK KREBS See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The path we have chosen is constitutional.
JOHN ASHCROFT It's remarkable in the sense there is no precedent and now it creates a precedent on that, which cre...
DAVID MITCHELL He did indicate that he's an older person, that he's learned more, that he thinks he's a wiser perso...
EDWARD KENNEDY The bottom line is it seems that Buckingham Palace and the queen have stopped the trial which is goi...
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LUTHER STRANGE a constitutional right . . . and once homosexuality is defined as a constitutional right, there is n...
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constitutional amendment to protect t...
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EDMUND MORGAN He (Hugo) has certainly generated some publicity. He is who he is. He's likable and charismatic.
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APURVA GAGLANI What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL There is little evidence that a broad federalization of hate crimes is warranted, ... Serious consti...
ORRIN HATCH It is a bill trying to force intelligent design on the school districts through the State Board of E...
CAROL LEAR It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It...
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DANE GILLETTE I do think a constitutional amendment is needed.
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C. JOYBELL C. To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive,...
LORETTA LYNCH What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER Love is insanity, apparently.
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JULIE ANNE LONG Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry.
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GAUTAMA BUDDHA I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and in...
JEAN O'LEARY You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
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RONALD REAGAN Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to...
LARRY CRAIG He wants to create a House of Cronies, beholden to him alone, ... constitutional vandalism.
WILLIAM HAGUE The point is, the Legislature has not met its constitutional requirements.
ART JOHNSON the serious constitutional heavy lifting is done in the Justice Department.
DAVID GARROW It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Sena...
MITCH MCCONNELL It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
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STEVEN STRAIT You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA There is an orderly and constitutional political process under way in Haiti,
RICHARD BOUCHER The United States supports a concept, and it's an important one, of democracy, specifically constitu...
WILLIAM BROWNFIELD Divorce is constitutional because some animals can never be domesticated.
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C. JOYBELL C. People have a constitutional right to have semiautomatic rifles.
PAUL RYAN The right of peaceable assembly and of petition É is the constitutional substitute for revolution.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I think the truth is black-and-white.
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