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• Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

  William Cowper

  Names, Fascination, Surrender

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.282

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• He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.

  William Cowper

  Men, Speech, Ambassadors

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.141

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• The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.

  Billy Graham

  Bible, Jesus, Wrath

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• I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.

  Dolly Parton

  Children, Struggle, True Identity

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Aug 28, 2012

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• In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Friendship, Real, Party

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.52

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• There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.

  Edgar Degas

  People, Gossip, Competition

  Edgar Degas' notebook entry (circa 1860), as quoted in "Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century" edited by Robert Goldwater, 1945.

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• An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

  Anton Chekhov

  Artist, Criticism, Answers

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.

  Hosea Ballou

  Should, Liberality

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• Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Axes, Ordinary

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

  Susan Sontag

  Oddities, Accumulation, Surrealism

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions.

  Harvey Mackay

  Skills, Creative, Fool

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• This President has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. And judgment is what we look for in the president of the President of the United States of America.

  John F. Kerry

  Regret, America, Errors

  "Would a Kerry win increase risk of terror?". Debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry at the University of Miami, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2004.

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• If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!

  Eugene Delacroix

  Different, Would Be, Actors

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• The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.

  Cennino Cennini

  Nature, Lying, Heart

  Cennino Cennini (2012). “The Craftsman's Handbook”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

  George Henry Lewes

  Logic, Argument, Tendencies

  "Problems of Life and Mind, First Series: The Foundations of a Creed". Book by George Henry Lewes. Volume 1, p. 7, 1874.

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• No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves his harshest words for those who ignore their own weakness in order to lord it over others.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Order, Self

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• I think that there’s going to be a rush to judgment on civil liberties, and a clamping down, a suspension of our democratic rights. And I believe that those who are good Americans would want to see this not happen and that we debate how to find a balance between the public safety and the protection of civil liberties.

  Barbara Lee

  Believe, Thinking, Rights

  "Alone on the Hill". Interview with Bill Hogan, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2001.

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• When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Hard Work, Anxiety, Doubt

  "Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. August 2, 2010.

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• If you feel an aversion to a person--that is, an unexplainable feeling of dislike or distaste for him--it is the most dangerous time for a proper opinion of him, his character, or his actions. Any judgment you pass upon him at such a time is bound to be unfair.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Character, Justice, Feelings

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.50, Sophia Institute Press

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• Moral judgment is not life-giving; love that transcends the boundaries of judgment as Jesus' love did, is.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Giving Love, Justice

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• People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

  Daniel Gilbert

  People, Criticism, Overconfident

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• Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.

  Robert J. White

  Attitude, Belief, Opinion

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• The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Demand, Dull

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• Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be evil. And this judgment is the primary thing that keeps us from doing the central thing God created us to do, namely, love like He loves.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Love, Evil, Judging

  Gregory A. Boyd (2004). “Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God”, p.17, Baker Books

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• People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery.

  Robert Genn

  People, Mystery

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