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This book must... touch... deep and difficult questions about birth and death... life and its inception... sexuality and gender, about distribution of power.

— Laurence Tribe Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990)

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Nothing is more devastating than a life without liberty.

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990)

So they wanted a general term that would refer to profound abuses of power that threaten the rule of law.

Laurence Tribe on To End a Presidency (2018)

"The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny of disparage others retained by the people."

The Invisible Constitution (2008)

So the framers of the constitution struck a balance and left the judgement to us.

Laurence Tribe on To End a Presidency (2018)

My interest is less in what's invisible "around" the Constitution than in what is invisible within it.

The Invisible Constitution (2008)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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