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"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."
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"If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him."
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"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."
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"It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated."
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"One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment."
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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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"In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court."
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"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."
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"There was no hostility at the court when I arrived."
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"The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases."
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"Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has."
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"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."
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"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either."
God

"The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word."
Change

"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."
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"One's life has many compartments."
Life

"The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay."
Work

"I think that NATO is itself a war criminal."
War

"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."
War

"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish."
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