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Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

Benjamin Cardozo

With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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Example Hands Humility
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
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Justice Mind Ordinary
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
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Long Running Swim
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
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Eternity Eye Prophet
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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Honesty Honor Sensitive
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Distance Doe Joy
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
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Dark Mind Years
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
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Balance Fairness Justice
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

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