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If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.

Sonia Sotomayor

Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way – through the power of words – to change the world.
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Bad Book Escape Life Myself Power Reading Travel Universe Word
I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
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Bad Believe Experience Goodness Judgement Life Opportunity Person
The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.
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Community Diversity Feeling
Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.
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Choice Experience Judgement Personal See
Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.
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Career Fun Pretend
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
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Business Decision Forget Government Reality World
There are no bystanders in life. Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.
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There are no bystanders in this life.
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Life One Liner Stand
If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.
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Break Carry Fight Live Myself Process Result System
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.
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Expectation Myself Self Love Worth
My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.
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Judiciary Law Myself Philosophy
It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
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Different Growth
If I write a book where all I’ve ever experienced is success, people won’t take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.
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Until we reach equality in education, we can’t reach equality in the larger society.
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The challenges I have faced – among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother – are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.
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The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn’t have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.
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If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.

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