"I can and do aspire to be greater……" — Sonia Sotomayor
"I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate."
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121 Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor
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I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different…
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If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction,…
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The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging…
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The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but…
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Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.
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Looking out at that crowd, I imagined those who had not yet arrived, minority students who, in years to come,…
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I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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