A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
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I remember he loved the patent cases, ... He used to get the invention involved in the case, take it apart and put it together again. He enjoyed seeing how the apparatus worked. . . . He also enjoyed the admiralty cases. He loved to get models of ships and recreate the circumstances of a collision.Learned Hand
Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.
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A wise man once said, Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.
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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
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I submit to you that we must press along. Borrowing from Epictetus, let us say to ourselves Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.
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