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• People have enough ideas. The real question is "Which ideas are you going to use?".

  Michael Ray

  Real, Ideas, People

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• Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

  Northrop Frye

  Men, Criticism, Literature

  1963 The Educated Imagination,'The Keys of Dreamland'.

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• Successful investors tend to be unemotional, allowing the greed and fear of others to play into their hands. By having confidence in their own analysis and judgement, they respond to market forces not with blind emotion but with calculated reason. Successful investors, for example, demonstrate caution in frothy markets and steadfast conviction in panicky ones. Indeed, the very way an investor views the market and it’s price fluctuations is a key factor in his or her ultimate investment success or failure.

  Seth Klarman

  Successful, Keys, Views

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• All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

  Charles William Eliot

  Business, Belief, Certainty

  "American Contributions to Civilization: And Other Essays and Addresses".

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• My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.

  James Boswell

  Memories, Passion, Animal

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• Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing

  Lord Acton

  Trust, Names, Judgment

  Lord Acton (2016). “Lectures on Modern History: Great Event”, p.22, VM eBooks

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• I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody's error in judgement.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Mistake, Errors, Office

  Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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• It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspiration, Men, Feelings

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• Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.

  Renee Olstead

  Best Friend, Being Yourself, Believe

  "Best Friends Forever" by Renee Olstead, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds - the invisible shared out in endless abundance.

  Denise Levertov

  Morning, Rain, Winter

  Denise Levertov, “Bearing The Light”

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• A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections.

  Saint Augustine

  Regret, Heart, Sadness

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• The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, People, Library

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Suddenly I find myself feeling sorry for those greedy, needy people whose huge salaries are never quite enough, whose sense of worth is defined by their own personal wad. What a diminished, impoverished world they must inhabit ... We should feel sorry for them and their sadly limited lives. Then we should remember never to trust the judgement of those whose priorities are so idiotically skewed.

  Terence Blacker

  Sorry, People, Priorities

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• To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

  Henrik Ibsen

  War, Writing, Heart

  " Richard Eyre: In the spirit of Ibsen" by Richard Eyre, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I experienced the judgement of a lot of people - and deservedly so.

  Sienna Miller

  People

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• New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Ideas, Invention, Good And Bad

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• How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled mind, No longer seeking to consider What is right and what is wrong, A mind beyond judgements, Watches and understands. Know that the body is a fragile jar, And make a castle of your mind. In every trial Let understanding fight for you To defend what you have won.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fighting, Men, Meditation

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• It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future

  Daniel Webster

  Fall, Ambition, Fighting

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• Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

  Alice Hoffman

  Circles, Innocence, Impossible

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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• If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

  Maya Angelou

  Uncles, Kindness, Men

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• If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Trying, May

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• It wasn't like I was some expert on the meaning of being supportive. Was it being loyal even against your better judgement? Or, like Olivia, was it making your displeasure known from the start, even when someone didn't want to hear it?

  Sarah Dessen

  Supportive, Experts, Olivia

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• His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Genius

  Victor Hugo (2002). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Random House LLC

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• your judgement judges you and defines you

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Judging, Define You

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• It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.

  Stephen Fry

  Silly, Hero, Reality

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