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Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

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Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

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The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe. ↗

— Nicholas Breton

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If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. ↗

— George Brett

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No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you. ↗

— Todd Bridges

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The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. ↗

— William Seward

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I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

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This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#fine #grandfather #me #minister #people

Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

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