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“In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.”

Firsts Week Judging Court Privilege Hearing Supreme Senators Supreme Court Participating Confirmation

Author:Al Franken

“If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.”

People Ifs Life Firsts Looks Action Worst Judging Looking Good

Author:Derek R. Audette

“At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.”

Men World Firsts Reality Fall Cities Steps Wise Judging Hero Circumstances Shame Foolish Forests Gates Customs First Steps Sanctity Dwarfs Discredit

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.”

Firsts Wells Judging Reader Standards Criticism Delight Reasonable

Book:The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe

Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe

“O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.”

Knows Men Firsts Causes Numbers Feet Judging Delight Gods Will Chosen Doctrine Esteem Mortals Makers Primal Predestination

Author:Dante Alighieri

“. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first started writing for the cinema. . . . Now I feel that only the literary mind can help the movies out of that cul de sac into which they have been driven by mere technicians and artificers.”

Feels Writing Mind Firsts Has Beens Helping Film Values Sin Quality Novel Judging Impact Mere Critics Driven Guilty Crafts Cinema Visuals Prose Technicians Disservice Film Critics

Author:Orson Welles

“No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.”

Ifs Way Mind Firsts May Made Soul Matter Use Evil Sin Acting Moral Figures Judging Personality Guilt Committed Contrary Welcome Rejection Touched Infamy Power Of Thought

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men's perfections in a science he formed still one Art.”

Men World Firsts Art Stills Judging Creatures Perfection Critics Philosopher Vices Accurate Truest

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.”

Firsts Two Three Judging Impression Wheels Permit Screws First Impression Valve

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.”

World Firsts Creation Judging Mass Operations Cunning Cradle

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations