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"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."
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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
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"We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts."
Feelings


"It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law."
Heart


"Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law."
Constitution


"I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights."
Rights


"Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see."
Fact


"With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects."
Achievement


"Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich."
Life


"I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities."
Work


"I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences."
Life


"Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."
Experience
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