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"The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried."
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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."

"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"

"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."

"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."

"We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it."

"What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation."

"To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country."
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"If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is."


"It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself."


"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."


"My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote."


"It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution."


"The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work."


"I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like."
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