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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
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
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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Names Taxes Validity
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
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
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
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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Finding Illusion Mind Peace
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
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

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