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There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

Benjamin Cardozo

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
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Opinion Significance Source
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
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Illuminating Past
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
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Art Dresses Fashion
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 judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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Judging Knights Roaming
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
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Example Hands Humility
Law never is, but is always about to be.
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Always Law never
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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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Choices Inaction

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

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There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

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