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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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Personal Development

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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Personal Development

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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Personal Development

"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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Personal Development

"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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Personal Development

"Give light and people will find the way."
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Personal Development

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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Personal Development

"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."
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Personal Development

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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Personal Development

"We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them."
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"I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it."
People


"Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him."
Community


"It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent."
People


"People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost."
People


"You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts."
People


"Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment."
Whim


"We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other."
Public


"And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee."
Committee


"Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want."
Independence


"We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges."
Judges
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