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"Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess."
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"My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs."
"The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner."
"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."
"Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won."
"The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost."
"I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any."
Explore more quotes by Felix Frankfurter
"It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people."
"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind."
"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."
"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."
"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."
"As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."
"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
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