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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

Benjamin Cardozo

No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.
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Issue Judicial Raise Sysdtem
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Judging Justice Law
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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
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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.
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Games Struggle Truth
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
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Law Limitation Running
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique

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