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It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance. ↗

— Barry Commoner

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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#day #every #every day #fact #fragmented

When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it. ↗

— George Sidney

#big #big family #day #family #had

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#arts #branch #comprehension #difficult #errors

The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment. ↗

— Lord Patrick Devlin

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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

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