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Sandra Day O'Connor

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

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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

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"The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them."

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"Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days."

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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

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"The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not."

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"Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire."

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"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

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"I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation."

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"That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree."

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"A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot."

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person."

Family

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"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."

Will

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues."

Injury

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation."

Success

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"I need to retire from retirement."

Retirement

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

Education

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"It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution."

Society

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Sandra Day O'Connor
"Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances."

Woman

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"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."

History

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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."

Thought

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