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

Benjamin Cardozo

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.
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Destructive Unchecked Unrelieved
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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 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, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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Heroic Hours Trumpet
The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.
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Long Running Swim
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
Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.
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Helping May Statutes
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

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

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