Susan Anton (Susan Ellen Anton) Quotes
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a disputable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
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We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.
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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
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There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.
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Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
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If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.
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Judges have their own point of view, and we have to respect them for that. Rather than feeling bad, we respect our judges and their opinions.
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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.
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They who are to be judges must also be performers.
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.
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It saddens me how much fear we've instilled in ourselves.
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I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past.
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Judges should decide legal disputes. Judges should not make law.
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When we hope, we trust in God. When we despair or presume, we choose to trust ourselves instead.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
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But I tell you - and mark my words - you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current.
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We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.
