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"Do be careful. I can't replace you as easily as all that."

"The main concern was making sure the kids didn't get caught in the middle."

"We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern."

"There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw."

"Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it."

"Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to."

"My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all."

"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."
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"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."


"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."


"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."


"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."


"Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles."


"We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens."


"What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful."


"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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