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Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.
Learned Hand
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Learned Hand
Age: 89 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 27
Died: 1961
Died: August 18
Judge
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Philosopher
Albany
New York
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Properly
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Thing
Mere
Life
Emotion
Becomes
Feeling
Knowing
Handmaiden
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Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.
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In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
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We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.
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Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.
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Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.
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We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.
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Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
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It is the daily it is the small it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If we are able to keep our democracy, there must be once commandment: THOU SHALT NOT RATION JUSTICE.
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The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
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