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

Benjamin Cardozo

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
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
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Gain Honesty Men
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
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
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
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
The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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Degrees Differences Real
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

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