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Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

Benjamin Cardozo

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

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