#judgments

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor. ↗

— John Woolman

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Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. ↗

— Learned Hand

#doubts #down #flow #insufficient #judgments

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#among #been #education #except #form

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

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I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can. ↗

— Janet Reno

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Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#best #every #find #function #give

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

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The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you. ↗

— Bruce Jay Friedman

#against #back #electronic #fellow #get

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

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