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• To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of evaluation, deliberation, choice, decision, etc. that constitute the substance of our political life are not operating. The same is true of overwhelming aversion. The person being tortured who simply wants it to stop, period, is also not a good model for an agent acting politically.

  Raymond Geuss

  Strong, Moving, Addiction

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• The sense of it may come with watching a flock of cedar waxwings eating wild grapes in the top of the woods on a November afternoon. Everything they do is leisurely. They pick the grapes with a curious deliberation, comb their feathers, converse in high windy whistles. Now and then one will fly out and back in a sort of dancing flight full of whimsical flutters and turns. They are like farmers loafing in their own fields on Sunday. Though they have no Sundays, their days are full of sabbaths.

  Wendell Berry

  Sunday, Dancing, Cedars

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• Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This sense, as Mackintosh remarks, "has a rightful supremacy over every other principle of human action"; it is summed up in that short but imperious word "ought," so full of high significance. It is the most noble of all the attributes of man, leading him without a moment's hesitation to risk his life for that of a fellow-creature; or after due deliberation, impelled simply by the deep feeling of right or duty, to sacrifice it in some great cause.

  Charles Darwin

  Sacrifice, Animal, Men

  "The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality".

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.442, Courier Corporation

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• Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Moving, Sloth, Noise

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.421, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Feelings, Would Be

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt. Chapter: "On Genius and Common Sense", 1822.

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• Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.

  Sarah Dessen

  Charming, Appeals, Impulsive

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• Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.

  Allen W. Wood

  Independent, Deciding What To Do, Way

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

  William James

  Drinking, Bed, Rising

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

  F. David Mathews

  Decision, Political, Speech

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• In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Use, Want, Ethics

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.49, Random House

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• Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Media, Pressure, Action

  "The Digital Dictatorship". www.wsj.com. February 20, 2010.

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• So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Truth, Past, Judging

  "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.

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• The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Decision, Tree, Problem

  "Software Pioneers: Contributions to Software Engineering: Programme Development by Stepwise Refinement". Book edited by Manfred Broy and‎ Ernst Denert, June 27, 2002.

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• Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Quality, Literature

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• Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Suicide, Suicidal, Long

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• When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.

  David Hume

  Men, Stupidity, Arrogance

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• The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

  Andrew Jackson

  Strong, Hands, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

  Don Tapscott

  Democracy, Age, Digital

  "Don Tapscott: Transforming Capitalism Won’t Happen Without Leadership". www.thestar.com. May 17, 2013.

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• After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.

  Jim Gerlach

  Today, Usa Patriot Act, Careful

  Jim Gerlach's Statement on the Reauthorization of the Patriot Act, July 21, 2005.

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• I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Morning, Prayer, Moving

  Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer, delivered Thursday, June 28, 1787, Philadelphia, PA

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• You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.

  Max Lucado

  Positive, Success, Confidence

  Max Lucado (2009). “Let the Journey Begin: God's Roadmap for New Beginnings”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Deliberation is a good thing when it comes to fighting wars.

  Rahm Emanuel

  War, Fighting, Good Things

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

  Demosthenes

  Wisdom, Ends, Consultation

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