#deliberate

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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The infrastructure of the US is a long-term suspension of disbelief that such things won't be exploded deliberately by people who don't create anything. ↗

— Dave Winer

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I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. ↗

— John Gunther

#deliberately #founded #good #good idea #idea

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire. ↗

— Heraclitus

#fire #more #quenched #than #violence

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#anyone #average #average person #content #deliberately

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something. ↗

— Dick Butkus

#deliberately #ever #game #hurt #i

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. ↗