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The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

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Morals are concerned with what aids or impedes the fulfillment of basic human needs.

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In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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John T. Noonan, Jr.

John T. Noonan, Jr.

Born: October 24, 1926
Died: April 17, 2017 (aged 90)
Bio: John Thomas Noonan, Jr. was a Senior United States federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with chambers in San Francisco, California.
Known for:
  1. A Church That Can And Cannot Change (2005)
  2. Bribes (1984)
  3. Contraception (1965)

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