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Sonia Sotomayor

My diabetes is such a central part of my life… it did teach me discipline, it also taught me about moderation. I’ve trained myself to be super-vigilant because I feel better when I am in control.
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Better Control Discipline Feeling Life Myself Sick Teaching Training
To me, lawyering is the height of service – and being involved in this profession is a gift.
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Gift Law Myself Professional Service
Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way – through the power of words – to change the world.
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Bad Book Escape Life Myself Power Reading Travel Universe Word
I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.
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Accomplishment Action Institution Myself Quality Thinking
Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
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Failure Fear Greatness Reward Success Teacher
If you’re poor, you don’t often live near a good school. If it’s a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.
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Children Competition Goodness Live Ourselves Poor Preparation Program
A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.
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Confidence Effort
My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.
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Judiciary Law Myself Philosophy
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn’t have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.
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Adult Care Children End Existence Interdependence Myself Truth
I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with.
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Blessing Face Myself Native Perseverance
As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.
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Equality Existence Inequality Ourselves Protection Race Society Task
You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.
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Choice Hard Work Life Understand Yourself
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can’t imagine someone else’s point of view.
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Age Break Imagination Myself Old People Time Understand View
It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
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Different Growth
Don’t be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.
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Herself Party Shy Teacher Willing
Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.
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Alone Future Oneself Path Remember Success Walk

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