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Successive Quotes by Learned Hand
- Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.
- The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts…
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- Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The… — George Eliot
- Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange.… — Victor Hugo
- You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been… — Barack Obama
- The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately… — Richard Owen
- Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each… — Hugo Black
- When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by… — Marguerite Yourcenar
- The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour,… — Gordon W. Allport
- There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from… — Charles Lyell