Jed S. Rakoff Quotes
An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Of course I get hurt.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.
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There's nothing you could do to me, nothing you could take away from me that would make me feel like I wasn't going to be all right.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
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Have you more faith in a spoonful of medicine than in the power that animates the living world?
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An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression.
