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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

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William J. Brennan Jr.
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Category: Government

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I have the problems of I must confess old age.
  • 2. I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
  • 3. A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character – I am that character… It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired and I've put them all to work onstage.
  • 2. Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.
  • 3. Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

3 Anger

  • 1. Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
  • 2. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
  • 3. Yeah to me acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.
  • 2. I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.
  • 3. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
  • 2. I left science then I went into art but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
  • 3. Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.
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