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• The feature of living matter that most demands explanation is that it is almost unimaginably complicated in directions that convey a powerful illusion of deliberate design.

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Design, Demand

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your possibilities are unlimited, but it all begins with the deliberate choice to think differently.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Thinking, Choices, Possibility

  Chris Guillebeau (2010). “The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World”, p.8, Penguin

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• Now, tell me how you're going to teach the history of Jefferson, and cut out all those quotes and cut out all these facts, and cut out the key line of the Declaration of Independence: We are endowed by our Creator. I mean you have to have a conscious deliberate censorship of America, which is what the left and the courts and the classrooms has had for 40 years.

  Newt Gingrich

  Mean, Cutting, Keys

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• I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times.' But I would not change my career ... While some have made deliberate attempts to hurt me, I take it in stride because I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.

  Michael Jackson

  Strong, Hurt, Wonderful Friends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

  Cary Elwes

  Pieces, Film, Periods

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• In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Art, Self

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that has come under threat. This fact should compel everyone to face a basic moral consideration; from now on, it is only through a conscious choice and then deliberate policy that humanity will survive.

  Pope John Paul II

  Inspiring, Country, Past

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “The Far East Journey of Peace and Brotherhood”, Pauline Books & Media

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• Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

  Sarah

  Voting, Borders, Politician

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• Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Independent, Men, America

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• The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive success that could only be achieved by the deliberate direction of a senior management that possesses the combined knowledge of all employees and contractors

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Senior, People, Management

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• Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Catholic, Killing

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.

  Isabel Paterson

  School, Omission, Long

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.235, Transaction Publishers

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• Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet, tree planting is often pictorially advertised on television and in national magazines by focusing on cupped caring hands around a seedling. But forests do not need this godlike interference... Planting tree plantations is permanent deforestation... The extensive planting of just one exotic species removes thousands of native species.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Cutting, Caring, Hands

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• Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is quite a racket going on. Choices have to be made with respect to every mark. Not every mistake should be erased. Nor shall the unintelligible be left out. Order is there to be wrenched from the tangles of words. Results are impossible to measure. A clearing is drawn around the perimeter as if by a stick with a nail on the end.

  C.D. Wright

  Mistake, Heart, Persistence

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• The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

  Donald Pleasence

  Character, Building Up, Goes On

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• Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.

  Dick Pound

  Cheating, Team, Doctors

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• I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Heart, Thinking, Choices

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• Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain. It´s about declaring what is just and what is unjust, and distinguishing right from wrong. We don´t grasp these things silently, and then put words to them; language is the medium through which we discern and deliberate about the good.

  Michael Sandel

  Pain, Animal, Sound

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• A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

  Sidney Hook

  Understanding, Perception, Awareness

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• A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.

  An Na

  Focus, Quality, Improvement

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• Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

  Robin Sharma

  Writing, Thoughtful, Goal

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• But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of other nations and of ours may be summoned together to deliberate about all the controversies and that there be handed down to posterity one harmonious, true, and clear form of doctrine, without any ambiguity. Meanwhile, as far as possible, let us encourage the union of our churches with measured advice.

  Philipp Melanchthon

  Wise, Men, Decision

  "The Peter Martyr Library: Dialogue on the Two Natures in Christ" translated and edited by John Patrick Donnelly, Pietro Martire Vermigli, Thomas Jefferson University Press, vol. 2, (p. 167), 1995.

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• There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.

  Sandy Berger

  Country, Effort, United States

  "Will Bush forgive and forget?" by John King, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2004.

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• We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

  Mary Renault

  Drunk, Serious, Matter

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• Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure. Hustling thus tends to produce uniformity. And in the deliberate fusing of individuals into a compact group, incessant action will play a considerable role.

  Eric Hoffer

  Independent, Play, People

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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