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Stanford University.
Justice Ginsburg went to
law school in an era--
the 1950s-- when
very few women did.
She faced enormous challenges
as a woman and as a mother
in pursuing her
career in that era.
She then turned her
career to the cause
of battling discrimination on
behalf of women and families
everywhere.
Today, Justice
Ginsburg finds herself
not only a member of
our nation's highest
court but a cultural
phenomenon as well.
The questions we take
up are rarely easy.
They seldom have
indubitably right answers.
Yet by reasoning together
at our conferences
and with more depth
and precision,
through circulation of and
responses to draft opinions,
we ultimately agree far more
often than we divide sharply.
If you're going to
be a lawyer and just
practice your profession,
well, you have a skill.
So you're very much
like a plumber.
But if you want to be
a true professional,
you will do something
outside yourself,
something to repair tears
in your community, something
to make life a little better for
people less fortunate than you.
That's what I think
a meaningful life is.
One lives not just for oneself
but for one's community.
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