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Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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Expression Form Freedom
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
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
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
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
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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
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
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
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
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

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