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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Benjamin Cardozo

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
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
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
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
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Errors Growth Ingredient
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had.
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Danger May Rescue
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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

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