Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Justice, Jurist, Author
"This is a court of law, not a court of justice."
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Court
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Serena Williams
Tennis Player
"I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had."
Russell Westbrook
Professional Basketball Player
"I have fears, but I do not fear anything or anybody on the court."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."
Dean Smith
Basketball Coach
"You can't teach court savvy"
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"The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms."
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"When I step onto the court, I'm ready to play. If you're going up against me, you'd better be ready. If you're not going to compete, I will dominate you."
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"I will not change just to court popularity."
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"I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything."
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"When you want to court a woman, court her sister first"
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"Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal."
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"The trick to defending Kentucky's home court is....better defending"
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"Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court."
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"A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women."
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"If that's what the court can do, then punish me more then I've been punished already."
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"He who begs timidly courts a refusal."
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"I just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it."
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"The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy."
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"The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman."
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"People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court."
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"I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop."
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"I've been called worse on the basketball court."
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"And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!"
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"The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court."
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"We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court."
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