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The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Benjamin Cardozo

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
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
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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
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
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
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
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
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

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