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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

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
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 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
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved

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