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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

Benjamin Cardozo

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
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
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.
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Balance Fairness Justice
The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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Judging Men Tides
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
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
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
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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