Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.
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The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue.
