#deliberate

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. ↗

— William Gaddis

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Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done. ↗

— Peter King

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Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something. ↗

— Dick Butkus

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We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#african #asian #brazilian #brazilian music #deliberately

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

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