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• anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

  Gloria Steinem

  Nurse, Racism, Black

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• The act is judged of by the event.

  Ovid

  Events

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• Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.

  Katherine Paterson

  Crazy, People, Ordinary

  Katherine Paterson (2009). “Jacob Have I Loved”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.

  John Dryden

  Drama, Play, Vehemence

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.379

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• Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

  Golda Meir

  Giving Up, Believe, Don't Give Up

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• If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, World, Might

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• The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

  Erica Jong

  Passion, Soul, Belief

  Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

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• Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.

  Tillie Olsen

  Commodity, Economy, Profit

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.170, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, People, Understanding

  "Privacy Board To Scrutinize Surveillance Programs". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. July 9, 2013.

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• I like to eat alone in restaurants, with a book, particularly if I am out of town, alone, on business. It's relaxing. I feel not even a twinge of embarrassment. Is this gender-related? Is there a lingering feeling among women that if they are alone in public, they will be judged to be spinsters or spinsters-to-be?

  Gene Weingarten

  Book, Feelings, Towns

  "Chatological Humor: The Big Fat Debate, Part 2". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2009.

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• Boxing Helena was something that I think was pretty cool, but people judged it without even having seen it. It's not perfect, but I think for the story that we were trying to tell, it turned out pretty good. What it signified was really powerful to me: how society puts us in boxes one way or another.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Powerful, Thinking, People

  "Fenn & Now" by Dennis Hensley. Movieline (USA), p. 54-59, June 1999.

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• I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.

  Tony Abbott

  Taken, Needs, Littles

  "Gospel truth not always in the telling says Tony Abbott". "AM" with Lyndal Curtis, www.abc.net.au. May 18, 2010.

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• La femme?sait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge  e, respecte  e, de  sire  e a'   travers sa toilette. Woman?knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Son, Appearance, Femme

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• Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.

  Paul Morabito

  Writing, Men, Forever

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• A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Design, Execution, Should

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.

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• There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.

  Duke Ellington

  Successful, Two, Sound

  Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington (1995). “The Duke Ellington Reader”, p.326, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.

  Cyril Connolly

  Writing, Years, Promise

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.109, University of Chicago Press

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• Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

  Walter Pater

  Views, People, Intellectual

  Walter Pater (1873). “Studies in the History of the Renaissance”, p.22

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• I've got a job to do, and I'm going to be judged upon whether or not the world is more peaceful and whether or not America is more prosperous and more compassionate.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, America, Peaceful

  Interview with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. September 22, 2003.

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• It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.

  Emily Matchar

  Doe, Buckets, Vinegar

  Emily Matchar (2015). “Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect.

  T. E. Hulme

  Religious, Men, Light

  "Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art". Book by T. E. Hulme, 1924.

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• Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Justice, Sentences

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.191, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt

  Clement Attlee

  Gentleman, Succeed, Boardwalk Empire

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• There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Spiritual, Women, Law

  Henrik Ibsen (1912). “- Hedda Gabler. The Master Builder. From Ibsen's Workshop. v.2- Brand. Peer Gynt. v.3- Emperor & Galilean. A Doll's House. Ghosts. v.4- Little Eyolf. John Gabriel Borkman. When We Dead Awaken. The Wild Duck. v.5- Lady Inger of Ostrat. The feast of Solhoug. Love's Comedy. The Vikings at Helgeland. The Pretenders. v.6- The League of Youth. Pillars of Society. Rosenersholm. The Lady from the Sea”

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• Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.

  Halle Berry

  Sex, Race, Black

  "The Seductress". Herald Sun, March 26, 2005.

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