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“I like my privacy as well as the next one,” Black famously wrote in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), “but I am nevertheless compelled to admit that government has a right to invade it unless prohibited by some specific constitutional
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“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
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“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
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“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
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“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
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SCOTUS History and Philosophy
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— last activity Jul 19, 2022 04:53PM
A discussion of cases and issues and books related to the U.S. Note that this group is basically defunct. I am referring people to Alan Johnson's very ...more
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Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more
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This book group reads nonfiction books on various topics in medieval European history, both academic and popular history. Group reads can last from on ...more
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