Where there's no stop and go
a thought may wet your face,
a breath arrest your stare.
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Poem Markings published in: Nathaniel Tarn (1968) Where Babylon endsNathaniel Tarn
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On stare decisis (adhering to judicial precedent): The Court's reliance upon stare decisis can best be described as contrived. It insists upon the necessity of adhering not to all of Roe, but only to what it calls the 'central holding.' It seems to me that stare decisis ought to be applied even to the doctrine of stare decisis, and I confess never to have heard of this new, keep-what-you-want-and-throw-away-the-rest version.
Antonin Scalia
The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson
The more I write the less substance do I see in my work, ... It is tolerably awful. And I face it, I face it but the fright is growing on me. My fortitude is shaken by the view of the monster. It does not move; its eyes are baleful; it is as still as death itself — and it will devour me. Its stare has eaten into my soul already deep, deep.
Joseph Conrad
That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.
Orson Scott Card
[...they] would cut us to mincemeat, and throw our bleeding heads on that table to stare us in the face.
Boyle Roche
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