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Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. -- Jean Houston
One thing I know from personal experience, judges hate it when parties talk publicly about their cases. There are a lot of things about our criminal legal system that need to be changed, and this is just one of them. Prosecutors know how to play the press. Most defendants don't. -- Michael Arrington
My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. -- 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. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds. -- Wallace Pratt

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