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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

Benjamin Cardozo

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
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
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
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
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Decision Justice Taken
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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
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 validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law

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