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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

Benjamin Cardozo

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
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Honest Poor Substitutes
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
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Judging Justice Law
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
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
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
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
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

The difference is no less real because it is of degree.

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