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

Benjamin Cardozo

The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
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
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
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
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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion

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