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"I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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"It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow."

"The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it."

"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."

"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."

"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."

"The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards."

"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."
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