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When I hear so much impatient and irritable complaint, so much readiness to replace what we have by guardians for us all, those supermen, evoked somewhere from the clouds, whom none have seen and none are ready to name, I lapse into a dream, as it were.

— Learned Hand Democracy: Its Presumptions and Realities (1932)

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A wise man once said, "Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through."

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