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"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
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"Out of clutter, find simplicity."
"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"
"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."
"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
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"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."
"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."
"I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage."
"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."
"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."
"We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician."
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