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"Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment."
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"Do be careful. I can't replace you as easily as all that."

"The main concern was making sure the kids didn't get caught in the middle."

"We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern."

"There is a reasonable concern that posting raw data can be misleading for those who are not trained in its use and who do not have the broader perspective within which to place a particular piece of data that is raw."

"Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it."

"Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to."

"My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all."

"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."
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"Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom."


"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."


"Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court."


"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."


"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."


"Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has."


"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."


"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."
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