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Anthony Kennedy

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1988–2018

United States · b. 1936

American lawyer and judge who sat on the Ninth Circuit before thirty years as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, where he was frequently the deciding vote. He taught constitutional law at McGeorge School of Law for many years.

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Question Which book changed the way you think, and what did it change?

I think fiction is very important because it gets us into the mind of a person. Hamlet is a tremendous piece of literature. You know Hamlet better than you know most real people. Do you know the reason? Because you know what he’s thinking. And this teaches you that every human has an integrity and an autonomy and a spirituality of his own, of her own, and great literature can teach you that.

Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 3 June 2005 source ↗

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