Felix Frankfurter Quotes
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
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I read a lot of detective novels.
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To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Well it is. It is a religion with me. It's a way of life. A religion is a way of life, isn't it?
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
