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The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

Benjamin Cardozo

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
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
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Bars Membership Privilege
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
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
Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.
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Fraud Include Knowledge Pretense
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
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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Judging Law Reality
Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.
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Done Revision Tasks
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
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Age Constitution Significance
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
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
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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Justice Storm Taken
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 risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
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Duty Obeyed Perceived Risk
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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Confidence Giving Judging Philosophy
Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
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Inspiration Inspirational Technique

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