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“The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship.”

Heart Lying Nature Perfect Judgment Models Gains Rely Copying Gateways Helm Stout

Book:The Craftsman's Handbook

Source: The Craftsman's Handbook

“If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.”

Ifs Firsts Judgment Reflection Gains Checks Length

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“As Iraqi forces gain experience and the political process advances, we will be able to decrease our troop level in Iraq without losing our capability to defeat the terrorists. These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgment of our commanders, not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington.”

Able Political Force Process Decision Levels Conditions Politician Judgment Losing Gains Defeat Iraq Driven Terrorist Capability Artificial Commanders Decrease Good Judgment Timetables

Author:George W. Bush

“The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.”

Mind Heart Kind Space Judgment Gains Capacity Insight Conclusion Assumption Paradox Heart And Mind

Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.”

Political Suffering Values Difficult Moral Judgment Gains Distance Indifference Detachment Relativism Malady

Author:Pierre L. van den Berghe

“We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.”

Years Justice Judgment Gains Experience Vain

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton