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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

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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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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Government is itself an art, one of the subtlest of the arts. It is neither business, nor technology, nor applied science. It is the art of making men live together in peace and with reasonable happiness.
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If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, good fences make good neighbors.
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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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It is important not to give the appearance of a predisposed mind. And it is more important not to let the mind become predisposed.
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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.
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I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.
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