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{{quote|I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [[hard-core pornography]]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. '''But I know it when I see it''', and the motion picture involved in this case [[The Lovers]] is not that. [Emphasis added.]|Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion in ''Jacobellis v. Ohio'' 378 U.S. 184 (1964)
{{quote|I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [[hard-core pornography]]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. '''But I know it when I see it''', and the motion picture involved in this case [[The Lovers]] is not that. [Emphasis added.]|Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion in ''Jacobellis v. Ohio'' 378 U.S. 184 (1964)}}
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I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description hard-core pornography; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case The Lovers is not that. [Emphasis added.]
—Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964)