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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
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
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
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
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
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming
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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
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
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

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