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Choosing how you vote should not be a snap verdict based on a few minutes of television.

Simon Cowell

Television, Vote, Should

"Simon Cowell's Sun sermon decoded" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2010.

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A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

Alan Dershowitz

Justice, Criminals, Trials

"Casey Anthony: The System Worked" by Alan Dershowitz, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 7, 2011.

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The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

LaToya Jackson

Art, Mean, Trials

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The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.

Rush Limbaugh

Inspirational, Kings, Loser

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What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!

Robert A. Heinlein

Stars, Truth, Thinking

Time Enough for Love (p. 264)

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Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

Ayn Rand

Mind

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On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the terrestrial manifestation of an empyrean Nollopian desire, that desire most surely being that the letter "Z" should be utterly excised--fully extirpated--absolutively heave-ho'ed from our communal vocabulary!

Mark Dunn

Fall, Vocabulary, July

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For there are three ways of performing an act of mercy: the merciful word, by forgiving and by comforting; secondly, if you can offer no word, then pray - that too is mercy; and thirdly, deeds of mercy. And when the Last Day comes, we shall be judged from this, and on this basis we shall receive the eternal verdict.

Mary Faustina Kowalska

Forgiveness, Comforting, Forgiving

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The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away unwept, unhonored, and unsung, no matter to what uses he leave the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced. Such, in my opinion, is the true gospel concerning wealth, obedience to which is destined some day to solve the problem of the rich and the poor.

Andrew Carnegie

Men, Leaving, Passing Away

"The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay The Gospel of Wealth". Book by Andrew Carnegie, 2014.

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Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if an inquest could be secured on this dire, spiritual calamity.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Spiritual, Prayer, Would Be

Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.69, CCEL

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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be augmented. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.

Alfred Binet

Intelligent, Trying, Approval

"Modern Ideas About Children". Book by Alfred Binet, 1909.

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I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its favor. I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man.

Alexander Hamilton

Christian, Patriotic, Men

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When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.

Adolf Hitler

Country, Light, Anxiety

Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same verdict. How certain thou art to die, thou knowest; how soon to die, thou knowest not. Measure not thy life with the longest; that were to piece it out with flattery. Thou canst name no living man, not the sickest, which thou art sure shall die before thee.

Thomas Adams

Christian, Art, Blessing

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Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

Norman Cousins

Acceptance, Negative, May

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[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.

J. I. Packer

Jesus, Eye, Mind

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I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world... Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value.

G. H. Hardy

Differences, Creating, Escaping

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On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.

George W. Bush

Issues, Religion, Atheism

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The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of Galileo's doctrine. Its verdict against Galileo was rational and just.

Paul Feyerabend

Faithful, Religion, Atheism

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Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate.

Perry Anderson

Simple, Ideas, Quality

Perry Anderson (2005). “Spectrum”, p.76, Verso

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Jury verdicts, basketball games, and even music are enough to set off black rage, it seems.

Ron Paul

Basketball, Games, Black

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As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.

Hugh Nibley

Running, Knowledge, Yesterday

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How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

Abraham Kuyper

Eye, Yield, Age

Abraham Kuyper (2009). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

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Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

Leonard Cohen

Art, Poetry, Intention

"A Visit With Leonard Cohen: Poetry, Britney Spears and More With a Master" by Mark Binelli, www.rollingstone.com. November 16, 2016.

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Perfect Scepticismeis a disease incurable, and a thing rather to be pitied or laughed at, then seriously opposed. For when aman is so fugitive and unsettled that he will not stand to the verdict of his own Faculties, one can no more fasten any thing upon him, than he can write in the water, or tye knots in the wind.

Henry More

Writing, Wind, Perfect

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