Quote by Thurgood Marshall
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect t

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. – Thurgood Marshall

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Todays Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. – Thurgood Marshall

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Freedom
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots. – Thurgood Marshall

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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control mens minds. – Thurgood Marshall

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Government
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Other Quotes from
Retirement
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When some people retire, its going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference. – Virginia Graham

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Retirement

A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service. – Harry Mahtar

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Retirement

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. – Ogden Nash

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Retirement

To retire is to die. – Pau (Pablo) Casals

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Retirement

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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. – Booker T. Washington

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Success

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God. – Sean Connery

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Faith

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. – Rich Kulawiec

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Programming

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Perspective