"I personally think that we should be extremely reluctant to use a recall mechanism for an unpopular decision simply because of the message it sends about judicial independence."

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Source : "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

#Thinking Quotes #Decision Quotes #Independence Quotes

“Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.”
“I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.”
“No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.”
“What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.”
“Don't read to remember; read to realize.”
“In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living.”
“I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope thereâ€™s mystery and poetry in your life â€” not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.”

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