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Sandra Day O Connor Inspirational Quotes (69)

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A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
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Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
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The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.
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I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.
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I finally gave up my little law practice and stayed home for about three years. You have to do what you can to keep the family going. But I wanted to get back to work. So I got another babysitter and went to work as an Assistant Attorney General.
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I think most people didn't want to do court duty.
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I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.
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Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
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I need to retire from retirement.
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You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.
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Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.
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It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
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What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome it was stressful.
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Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.
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The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
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I didn't want to be out of order answering any questions.
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The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.
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The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
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It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.
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Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
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I think people know very little, really, about the court, how it works and its history. And both of those things are important in our country, but they're not things that most citizens know much about.
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It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.
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Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
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It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
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