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

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
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, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
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Finding Illusion Mind Peace
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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
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
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
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Equality Erosion Liberty
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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

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

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