"The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue."

Thought, Abortion, Mail, states

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"The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue."

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"My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote."

Work, Hope, Now, Vote

"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."

Country, End, Resolution

"Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court."

Court, Joy, Justice, Pleasure

"It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself."

Fear, Values, Compromise, Constitution

"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."

Life, Women, Concern, Job

"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."

Attention, First, Media, Press

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

Country, Precedents

"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."

Life, Result, World

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

Liberty, Religious, Thoughtful

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

Experience, Values, Job

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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Thought, Action, Doubt, Failure

"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Thought, Thoughts, Tongue

"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."

Graham Greene, British Playwright

Thought, Freedom, Heresy, Word

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Thought, Mind, Change, Perception

"The only way to make a great thought great is to share it."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

Thought, Sharing, Greatness, Idea

"Language is the dress of thought."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Thought, Dress, Language

"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Thought, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Thought, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Thought,