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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

Louis D. Brandeis

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Louis D. Brandeis
Age: 84 †
Born: 1856
Born: November 13
Died: 1941
Died: October 5
Judge
Lawyer
Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Rewriting
Great
Writing

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Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.
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Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.
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Men feared witches and burned women.
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The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.
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If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
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People fear witches, and burn women.
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The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
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Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants electric light the most efficient policeman.
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The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
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To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
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In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.
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There are no shortcuts in evolution.
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The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
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There is no good writing there is only good rewriting.
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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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The most important thing we do is not doing.
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