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Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

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Charles Horton Cooley

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

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There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

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Society is an interweaving and interworking of mental selves. I imagine your mind and especially what your mind thinks about my mind and what my mind thinks about what your mind thinks about my mind. I dress my mind before you and expect that you will dress yours before mine. Whoever cannot or will not perform these feats is not properly in the game.

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An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

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The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.

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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

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