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Louis Dembitz Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American litigator, Supreme Court Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief.

• The intensity and complexity of life, attendant upon advancing civilization, have rendered necessary some retreat from the world.
  • "The Right to Privacy," 4 Harvard Law Review.

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    193, 196 (1890).

• The bow must be strung and unstrung . . . there must be time also for the unconscious thinking which comes to the busy man in his play.
  • Letter to William Harrison Dunbar (February 2, 1893), reprinted in Letters of Louis D.

    Brandeis Volume I (1870–1907): Urban Reformer 109 (Melvin I. Urovsky & David W. Levy, eds., State University of New York Press 1971).

• When a man feels that he cannot leave his work, it is a sure sign of an impending collapse.
  • Letter to Alfred Brandeis (March 8, 1897), reprinted in Letters of Louis D. Brandeis Volume I 127 (Melvin I. Urovsky &a