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1. "We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
2. "I need to retire from retirement." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
3. "Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
4. "Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
5. "The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
6. "Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
7. "The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender" ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
8. "Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence - and it's right there in the name." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
9. "Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
10. "In Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court held that the United States' exercise of authority over Guantánamo gave the detainees a constitutional right to bring their habeas corpus claims in federal district courts. The Court also held that the procedures authorized under the Military Commissions Act, which called for military tribunals to look into the detention of the Guantánamo detainees, were not an adequate substitute for habeas. As the Court explained, "[t]he laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, even in extraordinary times. Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system, they are reconciled within the framework of the law."17" ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
11. "Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?" ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
12. "In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
13. "Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
14. "We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
15. "We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
16. "It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
17. "As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
18. "Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
19. "Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
20. "A moment of silence is not inherently religious." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
21. "Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
22. "A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
23. "And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
24. "It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
25. "Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values." ~ Sandra Day O'Connor

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