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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.”

Giving I Can Literature Can Do Views Pieces Information Judgment Function Journalist

Author:Jim Lehrer

“The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.”

Mean Facts Values Mistake Members Judgment Function Features Characteristics Spite Making Mistakes Disagree Really Mean Free Society

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve God more directly than the lower orders, which tend to the administration of the physical universe and the service of humankind. Some orders are associated with particular divine qualities - Seraphim with Love, Cherubim with Wisdom, Thrones with Judgment.”

Order Universe Quality Roles Divine Particular Higher Judgment Angel Function Administration Humankind Serving God Thrones

Book:In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey

Source: In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey

“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”

Art Artist Culture Individual Judgment Perception Function Environmental Tyranny Primaries Permit Autonomy Individual Autonomy

Author:Beverly Sills

“If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame is one means to silence one's doubts. It has a function to be compared with that of the Egyptian pyramids or the Christian faith in immortality: it elevates one's individual life from its limitations and instability to the plane of indestructability; if one's name is known to one's contemporaries and if one can hope that it will last for centuries, then one's life has meaning and significance by this very reflection of it in the judgments of others.”

Source: Escape from Freedom

“We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.”

Doe Stills Character Feelings Powerful Emotion Principles Records Violence Sea Balance Judgment Function Ships Repeats Spite Rough Compass Maintaining Variation Strength Of Character

Book:On War

Source: On War

“You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement. Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority. All people are born with different constitutions. Never compare with others. Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength. Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.”

“If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!”

Ifs Way Children Social Parent Business Judgment Function Mere Advertising Our Time Parental Degrading Insolent Usurpers

Author:Jules Henry

“The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.”

Mind May Facts Feelings Science Habit Judgment Accounts Function Recognition Characteristics Significance Relative Sequence Classification Frame Of Mind Personal Feelings

Book:The Grammar of Science

Source: The Grammar of Science

“Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the central concern of modern politics. Public judgment, in the words of Benjamin Barber, is a function of commonality that can be exercised only by citizens interacting with one another in the context of mutual deliberation and decision.”

Source: Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy During the Progressive Era

“Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions of that judgment in our bodies. Thus we tend to see our world in terms of good germs and bad germs, and use words such as toxins and waste to describe the by-products of the very functions that give us life. It is in such a world that our bodies may become a combat zone for forces at odds with one another, creating the biological battlegrounds that play out”

“In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, to prohibit within its jurisdiction all criminal practices ... Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government.”

States Government Church Religious Atheism Duty Citizens Degrees Judgment Organization Function Congress Conviction Presidential Smallest Scruples

Author:James A. Garfield