Benjamin N. Cardozo Quotes

The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 24, 1870 - July 9, 1938

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Independent filmmakers already have their heads around people on their couches watching their movies.

Jill Soloway

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You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.

Joe Torre

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There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.

Jenny Han

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Men are not usually forthcoming in the expression of their emotions.

Andre Braugher

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Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

Robert M. Pirsig

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The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

Amy Adams

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I am not a sexy woman, I'm not beautiful, I'm not a sex kitten, I don't flirt with people, yet I've been tagged more of sex symbol than women who truly are and I that's solely because I don't reveal too much: people are curious.

Shirley Manson

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I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.

Rita Ora

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I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

Michael Steger

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Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

Dito Montiel

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Douglas MacArthur

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The obligation of any judge is to decide the case before the court, and the nature of the issue presented will largely determine the appropriate scope of the principle on which its decision should rest.

David Souter

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