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Article: Emotion in the language of judging
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- St. John's Law Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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I am going to talk about emotion in the language of judging. I begin with two quotations. One is a statement made by Justice Steven G. Breyer during his confirmation hearings:
I read something that moved me a lot not very long ago. I was reading something by Chesterton, and he was talking about one of the Brontes ... . He said ... you go and you look out at the City, he said - I think he was looking at London - and he said, you know, you see all those houses now, even at the end of the 19th century, and they look as if they are the same. And you think all those people are out there, going to work, and they are all the same. But, he says, what Bronte tells you is they are not the same. Each ...