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"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

"The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it."

"What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men."

"The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society."

"To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks."

"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."

"I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them."

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."

"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music."

"In my friend, I find a second self."

"A camel is a horse designed by committee."

"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."

"It's [the internet] like the flu - it just spreads like crazy."

"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams."

"The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization."

"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"

"I don't believe in having bands for solo records."

"Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness."

"Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world..."

"Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States."

"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."

"Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons."

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

"Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible."

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

"There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes."

"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."

"The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people."