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A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

Sonia Sotomayor

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
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
We apply law to facts. We don’t apply feelings to facts.
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Difference Fact Feelings Law
Don’t mistake politeness for lack of strength.
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Mistake Polite Strength
There are no bystanders in this life.
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Life One Liner Stand
A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.
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Confidence Effort
I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I’d feared.
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Acceptance Culture Fear Knowledge Law Myself Simplicity Understand
I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
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Believe Constitution Honor Respect
Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
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Aspiration Dreams Experience Reality True Value
Until we reach equality in education, we can’t reach equality in the larger society.
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Education Equality Reach Society
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences…our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
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Born Difference Experience Inheritance Judgement Nation Ourselves
The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
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Fire Forever Myself
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
You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will – undoubtedly – fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I’m just not going to let this get me down.
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Doubt Failure Hurt Live Myself
It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
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Different Growth
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

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