"I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they have an understanding of how to apply the law in their times ... in a way that's completely consistent with ... the text of the law and the purposes of the law, and in a way that's completely right for the times in which they live in."

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Source : C-Span Interview, www.c-span.org. December 09, 2010.

Elena Kagan

#Thinking Quotes #Law Quotes #People Quotes

“Sorry, my watch doesn't speak spanish.”
“Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have been if I had given him an engine worked by steam, with a methylated spirit lamp to heat the boiler; more enchanted, perhaps for the engine would have got broken, and, remaining always itself, would in any case have lost its charm, while the rudiments of algebra continued to grow and blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities.”
“I learned to win by learning to lose- that means not being afraid of losing.”
“The nice girl makes the mistake of being available all the time.”
“Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.”
“Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.”
“I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.”
“The fire of love and the cold of time, deprive my sweet love of his peace of mind.”

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