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  • A decision whether or not to have an abortion, "originat [ing] within the zone of conscience and belief," involves conduct in which "the liberty of the woman is at stake in a sense unique to the human condition and so unique to the law."

    Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief Dworkin, Ronald 1997

  • It is astonishing that something originat - ing in so small and contained an area as a narrow Dutch room can have such wide application.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas TOM TASHIRO 1968

  • * If thefe origrnal differences in vibrations are fufiicient to correfpond to all the varieties of our originat or £mple ideas» the combinations of which they are capable muA be equal in both cafes; fo that the namberof complex ideas creates no pe - culiar difficulty.

    The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature 1775

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