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Felix Frankfurter

"I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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