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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Felix Frankfurter

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Felix Frankfurter
Age: 82 †
Born: 1882
Born: November 15
Died: 1965
Died: February 22
Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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Vienna
Austria
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Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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