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"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously to answer wisely to consider soberly and to decide impartially."

"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."
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"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."

"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."

"You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time than the peril of being judged not to have lived at all."

"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back."
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