#si

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

#clause #confession #due #embodied #fairness

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#became #chemical #chemicals #chemistry #enough

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries. ↗

— Sydney Brenner

#age #completed #contemporaries #directly #first

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence. ↗

— William Falconer

#apprehend #blessing #care #consequence #enjoy

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#designed #football #game #keep #miners

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#eludes #fought #hamburger #interest #like

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#hearing #inattention #listen #look #magazines

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#make #might #never #perhaps #seen

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. ↗

— Andre Breton

#convulsive #will

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments. ↗

— Edie Falco

#around #busy #days #different #fish