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To take risks is the very essence of Jewish life, that is, to take necessary risks. The wise man seeks not to avoid but to minimize risks. He minimizes them by using judgment and by knowledge and by thinking. These are, fortunately, preeminently Jewish attributes.

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Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

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Louis Brandeis

Louis Brandeis
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Born: November 13, 1856
Died: October 5, 1941 (aged 84)
Bio: Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents from Bohemia, who raised him in a secular home.
Known for:
  1. The Right to Privacy
  2. Family letters of Louis D. Brandeis
  3. Brandeis on democracy
  4. Letters of Louis D. Brandeis
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