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Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
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
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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Gain Honesty Men
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
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
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction

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