As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure that comes before them, lest it be thought that their validation, invalidation, or interpretation of it is driven by their desire to expand or constrict what they personally approve or disapprove as a matter of policy.

Antonin Scalia

Judge Desire Matter Rule

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When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Pablo Picasso

Child Soldier General Monk

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I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Steven Wright

Anything Buy General Me

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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Edmund Burke

Anxious Error General Loudest

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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

C. C. H. Pounder

Caribbean Completion General Good

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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Thomas Paine

Abolish Act Association Begins

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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

Wangari Maathai

Angry Because Country Culture

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I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.

Rajon Rondo

Both Coach Definitely General

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Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

Tragedy Universe Physical Fear

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A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Douglas MacArthur

Bad Command General Good

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In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Aims Achieve Effort Scare

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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

P. T. Barnum

General Duped World Attempted

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As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

Maria Mitchell

Disappoint General GeneralRule Know

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I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.

Neale Donald Walsch

General IThink Increase Itself

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Do not blow your own trumpets nor, which is the same thing, ask other people to blow them. No trumpeter ever rose to be a general.

Edward Everett Hale

Blow Trumpets Same thing Ask

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The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

Ellen G White

Young World Few maintain Warfare

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I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

Keith Richards

Doctors General Good Good Ones

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I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

Kris Kristofferson

Against Air Air Force Always

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The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

George Soros

Concept General equilibrium Relevance Real world

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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

Aid Being Better Better World

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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Robert E. Howard

Because Civilized General Having

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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform

Xenophon

Small risk A general Contempt Lead

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Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

Thomas Hardy

Happiness Occasional episode General drama Pain

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As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

Alexandre Dumas

General rule People ask Advice Follow it

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Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.

Bennet Omalu

Trauma Blunt-force Brain damage NFL

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Antonin Scalia

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Pablo Picasso

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Steven Wright

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Edmund Burke

I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

C. C. H. Pounder

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Thomas Paine

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

Wangari Maathai

I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.

Rajon Rondo

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

William Faulkner

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Douglas MacArthur

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

P. T. Barnum

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

Maria Mitchell

I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.

Neale Donald Walsch

Do not blow your own trumpets nor, which is the same thing, ask other people to blow them. No trumpeter ever rose to be a general.

Edward Everett Hale

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

Ellen G White

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

Keith Richards

I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.

Kris Kristofferson

The concept of a general equilibrium has no relevance to the real world (in other words, classical economics is an exercise in futility).

George Soros

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Marie Curie

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Robert E. Howard

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform

Xenophon

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

Thomas Hardy

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

Alexandre Dumas

Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.

Bennet Omalu

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