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

Benjamin Cardozo

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
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Competition Finals Law
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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
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
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
In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity – please observe, a plodding mediocrity – for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Distance Doe Joy
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
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction

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

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