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No judicial system could do society’s work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
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 heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
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 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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Judging Justice Law
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
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

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