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Sandra Day O'Connor

"Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values."

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Donna Grant

"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."

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Donna Grant

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

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Donna Grant

"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."

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Donna Grant

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

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Donna Grant

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

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Donna Grant

"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."

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Donna Grant

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."

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Donna Grant

"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."

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Donna Grant

"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases."

Will

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"I need to retire from retirement."

Retirement

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability."

Society

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents."

Country

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."

Liberty

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances."

Woman

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

Education

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"My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own."

American

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job."

Job

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community."

Government

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