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• Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Weak Man, May

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.208

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• What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air.

  George Carlin

  Air, Exactly Is, Television

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

  Tryon Edwards

  Life, Common Sense, Sound

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.218, Ravenio Books

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• Hitler always styled himself as a man who renounced all personal happiness in the service of his people. There is no conclusive evidence of this, but I believe that behind the smokescreen of discretion, Hitler had a very normal love life with Eva Braun.

  Volker Ullrich

  Believe, Love Life, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Happiness, Marriage

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

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• I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to air it or not, it's at my discretion. I don't have to do it to somebody else's time frame.

  Criss Angel

  Real, Air, Ideas

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• There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

  Myrtle Reed

  People, World, Mouths

  Myrtle Reed (1904). “The Book of Clever Beasts: Studies in Unnatural History”

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• Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Memories, Dedication, Past

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• Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.

  George Carlin

  Use, Sometimes, My Own

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion.

  James Burgh

  Gun, Thinking, People

  James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books

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• Working and making a fire doth discretion require.

  George Herbert

  Fire

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.148

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• The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

  Solomon

  Anger, Men, Glory

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• Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Success, Leadership, Freedom

  Giuliani's speech at a forum about crime in the cities, sponsored by The New York Post, www.nytimes.com. March 20, 1994.

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• To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

  Seneca the Younger

  Tongue, Firsts, Silent

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• The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Evil, Separation

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• Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating. A solid, twenty-two-carat silence all the way through. The Olympian's trap is kept shut, not by an act of willed discretion, but because there's really nothing to say. Goddesses are all of one piece. There's no internal conflict in them. Whereas the lives of people like you and me are one long argument. Desires on one side, woodpeckers on the other. Never a moment of real silence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Two, Long

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• How very sad it is to have a confiding nature, one's hopes and feelings are quite at the mercy of all who come along; and how very desirable to be a stolid individual, whose hopes and aspirations are safe in one's waistcoat pocket, and that a pocket indeed, and one not to be picked!

  Emily Dickinson

  Feelings, Pockets, Safe

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.167, Harvard University Press

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• The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

  Norm MacDonald

  Wisdom, Principles, Firsts

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• All persons are not discreet enough to know how to take things by the right handle.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Enough, Persons, Handle

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1847). “Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.193

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• The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpose, of a civic duty, which embraced the greatest hazards to themselves and to all the people from whom they held this deputed discretion, but which, to their sober judgments, promised benefits to that people and their posterity, from generation to generation, exceeding these hazards and commensurate with its own fitness.

  William M. Evarts

  Men, Light, People

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• A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Opportunity, Attachment, Enterprise

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2397, Delphi Classics

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• Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

  Alfred de Musset

  Wine, Men, Intoxicated

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• Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each revelation is suited to the emergencies of his policy or passion; and all contradiction is removed by the saving maxim that any text of Scripture is abrogated or modified by any subsequent passage.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Perfect, Saving

  Edward Gibbon (1830). “The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, Esq. Printed From The Edition In Twelve Volumes. With An Introductory Memoir Of The Author, By William Youngman”, p.913

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• The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Sea, History

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• Add to this occasional journeys, ministers’ meetings, etc., and you will rather wonder that I have any time, than that I have so little. I am not my own, nor would I choose for myself. Let God employ me where he thinks fit, and give me patience and discretion to fill up my station to his honour and glory.

  William Carey

  Letting Go, Journey, Thinking

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