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

Benjamin Cardozo

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
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
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
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
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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

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