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• When settling disputes between his subjects, he should ensure that his judgement is irrevocable; and he should be so regarded that no one ever dreams of trying to deceive or trick him.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Dream, Art, War

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• The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.

  Wayne Dyer

  Weed, Flower, Differences

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Judging, Enemy, Politics

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• What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Loneliness, Sadness

  "The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 341, 1882.

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• The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Law, Liberty

  Winston Churchill (1952). “The Second World War”

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• Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Experience

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• Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.

  Meg Cabot

  Brave, Forever, Important

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• Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Space

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• Every gulp of air that goes out in a cause other than the cause of Allah will turn to sorrow and regret on the Day of Judgement.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Regret, Air, Sorrow

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• It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

  George Orwell

  Religious, Art, Book

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• The first step to be taken by one who wishes to follow Christ is, according to Our Lord’s own words, that of renouncing himself - that is, his own senses, his own passions, his own will, his own judgement, and all the movements of nature, making to God a sacrifice of all these things, and of all their acts, which are surely sacrifices very acceptable to the Lord. And we must never grow weary of this; for if anyone having, so to speak, one foot already in Heaven, should abandon this exercise, when the time should come for him to put the other there, he would run much risk of being lost.

  St. Vincent

  Running, Taken, Passion

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• The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement against his big brother, began to change his point of view. He no longer hoped to right all things by his individual efforts. He turned to the law, to the government, to the state.

  Walter Weyl

  Brother, Government, Moral Judgement

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• The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

  Florence Welch

  People, Stage, Fronts

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• The environment and support is one of a kind! A zero judgement, safe place to discuss and achieve goals!

  Melissa M

  Zero, Goal, Support

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• At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgement of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Country, Men

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Corn, Fields

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• Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

  John Milton

  Passion, Free Will, Heed

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.124

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• The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in his character, and in his discoveries,-a vivid imagination sketching out new tracts in regions unexplored, for the judgement to select those leading to the recesses of abstract truth.

  Davies Gilbert

  Character, Science, Discovery

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• Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.

  Homer

  Vehemence, Youth, Weak

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• The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from the matter; in this case, being unable to assume either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgement about both.

  Sextus Empiricus

  Order, Inquiry, Matter

  Sextus (Empiricus.) (1993). “Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism”

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• Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Opportunity, Long

  Hippocrates, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, John Chadwick, William Neville Mann (1978). “Hippocratic writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain of negation and the God forsakenness of judgement to reconcile himself with his enemies and to give the godless fellowship with himself.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Easter, Pain, Men

  Jürgen Moltmann, Robert E. Neale, Sam Keen, David LeRoy Miller (1972). “Theology of play”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

  Criss Jami

  Insecurity, Guilt, Judgment

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.129, Criss Jami

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• The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Children, Practice

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I: "The Education of the Architect", Section 1,

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• Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

  Andre Gide

  Maturity, Thinking, Time Left

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