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I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don’t know how many you’re going to be given.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I don’t think it’s the court’s perceived role to do some explaining of a political nature.
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Nature Political Roles Thinking
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I’ve been across the street at work for a while, they’ll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
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Hope Politics Wonderful Years
If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.
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Christian Groups Religious
It is a measure of the framers’ fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
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Majority might Politics Value
I have always thought that while it’s wonderful to be the first to do something, you don’t want to be the last.
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First Last Something Wonderful
Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
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Doubt Jurisprudence Liberty
Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
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Family Nature Women
If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.
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Great Day Jobs Thinking
What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.
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Attention Firsts Media
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
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Eye Leadership Race
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
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Learning Tasks Time
Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn’t a group decision.
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Clerks Decision Justice
I like to think that the court will continue to be held in high regard by the public. I think it should be.
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Court Regard Thinking
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
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Leadership Procrastination Sports
I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.
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Constitution Rights Talking
It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.
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Government Successful Two

I think I learned to appreciate and treasure each day, because you don’t know how many you’re going to be given.

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