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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
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Philosopher
Albany
New York
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A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.
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As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma and as soon as we come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma, not only are the days of our liberty over, but we have lost the password that has hitherto opened to us the gates of success as well.
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The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
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In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal
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Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.
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Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.
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