"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."

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"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."

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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."

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"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

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"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"One believes others will do what he will do to himself."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then."

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"Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

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"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."

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"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."

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"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."

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"Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents."

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

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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."

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

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

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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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"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something."

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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."

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