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• My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.

  Joshua Mohr

  Jobs, Novelists, Cases

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• The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Painting, Praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people and to the world the final proof by means of the Supreme Court-Martial and its verdict.

  Walther von Brauchitsch

  Mean, Men, People

  "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Nuremberg, Germany, (p. 203), 1947.

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• He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Independent, Men, Jail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime, still fly before the gale. ... If after all these fearful fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained; yet in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

  Herman Melville

  Giving, Quests, Wrecks

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4644, Delphi Classics

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• When the guilty verdict was handed down, I walked outside and saw a rainbow encircling the sun. Everyone in Monrovia could see it. It was a hot day, 80 or 90 degrees. I don't remember seeing any raindrops fall. I thought, this is a sign.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Fall, Rainbow, Saws

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• I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

  Leonard Cohen

  Writing, Giving, Use

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• Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

  Norman Cousins

  Wisdom, Trying, Diagnosis

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• Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

  Leonard Cohen

  Compassion, Justice, Judging

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• Sentence first, verdict afterwards.

  Lewis Carroll

  Firsts, Sentences

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 12 (1865)

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• Tobacco has not yet been fully tried before the bar of science. But the tribunal has been prepared and the gathering of evidence has begun and when the final verdict is rendered, it will appear that tobacco is evil and only evil; that as a drug it is far more deadly than alcohol, killing in a dose a thousand times smaller, and that it does not possess a single one of the quasi merits of alcohol.

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Science, Evil, Alcohol

  John Harvey Kellogg (1922). “Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,”

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• The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit.

  Loretta Lynch

  Betrayal, Lying, Police

  "New York Jury Convicts Three Officers on Charges Related to Torture of Abner Louima". "World Today" with Jim Moret, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2000.

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• In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

  Georges Duhamel

  Fate, Men, Bed

  Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”

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• Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Decision, Voting, Return

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• The verdict of the world is conclusive.

  Saint Augustine

  World

  "Contra epistulam Parmeniani" by Augustine of Hippo, III, 24,

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• One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'.

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Men, Fool

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.178, Pearson Education

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• The choice of moves should not be made on an exact verdict of the final position, but on whether or not your position has improved or worsened.

  Jacob Aagaard

  Moving, Choices, Finals

  "Excelling at Positional Chess". Book by Jacob Aagaard, 2001.

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• You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward myself? Am I more a critic than a friend? Do I look beyond the surface blemishes to find the truly beautiful and unique person that I am? Or do I play the destructive "comparison game"? What verdict does the juror of my mind pass on me: "good at heart" or "guilty on all counts"?

  John Powell

  Beautiful, Attitude, Heart

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• My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

  Charles Tupper

  Country, Party, Issues

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• Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Heaven, Wish

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1951, Delphi Classics

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• In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict.

  Anais Nin

  Trials, Scene, Accusation

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• O time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou!

  Thomas William Parsons

  Time, Art, Judging

  Dante Alighieri, Thomas William PARSONS (1843). “The First Ten Cantos of the Inferno ... Newly Translated Into English Verse [by Thomas W. Parsons].”, p.6

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• No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Men, Criticism

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• Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Realizing, Christ

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• It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.

  Jonathan King

  Publicity, Accused, Adverse

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