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We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
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 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
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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

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