Deliberate Quotes - Page 15

• The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Giving Money, People, Church

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• That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

  Publilius Syrus

  Delay, Merit, Protection

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• What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the movementin the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful.

  Mary Blakely

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Son

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• The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Artist, Self, People

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

  Michelle Stuart

  Art, Feminist, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

  Dessa Darling

  Music, Lying, Ignorant

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• If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.

  Kathleen Rooney

  Believe, Perspective, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's just interesting to me that the physical enactment of that mind moving has gradually changed for you in the last few years. It made me wonder if the change was deliberate in any sense, or procedural, like when A.R. Ammons stuck an adding machine roll into his typewriter to squeeze his verses into shorter lines.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Moving, Years, Typewriters

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

  Tennessee Williams

  Unforgivable Sin, Cruelty, Sin

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• No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

  Daniel Levitin

  Regret, Past, Events

  Daniel J. Levitin (2014). “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload”, p.36, Penguin

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• Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Real, Silence, Speech

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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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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• I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.

  Miguel

  Thinking, Style, Pronunciation

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• The deliberate weakening of the labour movement by the machinations of market fundamentalists, gaining momentum during the periods when Margaret Thatcher led the United Kingdom and Ronald Reagan governed in the United States, contributed to the decline of human rights.

  Richard A. Falk

  Rights, Labour Movement, Kingdoms

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.

  Indraneel Bhattacharya

  Good Work, Mediums, Has Beens

  Source: www.ibtimes.co.in

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• Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

  John Dewey

  Growing Up, Pain, Thoughtful

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The only failure is the failure to learn from conscious and deliberate efforts to make things better, even if those attempts fall short of the mark.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Fall, Effort, Conscious

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't go into any album with a concept or a deliberate direction. It's more letting the best music that really appeals to me at the time, the best songs that I find after many months and years of search and sifting through my collection, and asking radio people and journalists. It's really an ongoing search that's as much daunting as it is somewhat exciting.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Song, Years, People

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• Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening as deliberate policy in Europe and the United States. Falling or stagnant prices are simply the result of having less income to spend.

  Michael Hudson

  Fall, Mean, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Perfection, Desire, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Fun, Character, Differences

  Alexandra Stoddard, Marc Romano (2013). “Making Choices”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

  Russell Brand

  Drug, Consciousness, Agree

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• Choosing succulence is a deliberate act of personal revolution. It means waking up! Embracing your true self, studying your patterns, and letting out your most alive self. We all have one.

  Sark

  Mean, Self, Wake Up

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• Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.

  Ed Crane

  Government, Constitution, Welfare

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• In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.

  Daniel J. Bernstein

  Talking, Internet, Communicate

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