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Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

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
Good
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Anybody
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Different

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The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.
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It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of laws to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.
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No office in the land is more important than that of being a citizen.
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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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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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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
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Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.
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While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.
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There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.
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To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.
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The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
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I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
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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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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.
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The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
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