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“Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is not for humans. Judgment lies with God. That's what I learned from my Arabic brothers and sisters.”

Ifs Humans Stills Ends Eye Lying Hate Prayer Brother Judgment Mad Scream Brothers And Sisters Closing Closing My Eyes

Author:Kenji Goto

“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

“He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted with one science, and even of that one only knows the small corner in which he is an active investigator. He even proclaims it as a virtue that he takes no cognisance of what lies outside the narrow territory specially cultivated by himself, and gives the name of "dilettantism" to any curiosity for the general scheme of knowledge.”

Knows Men Giving Lying Order Names Known Virtue Judgment Curiosity Corners Active Territory Schemes Be A Man Specialists Investigators

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!”

Trying War Light Lying Nations One Day Judgment Errors Folly

Book:Above the battle

Source: Above the battle

“For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong. And for almost as long, some among them have derided such talk, called it a charade, insisted that war lies beyond (or beneath) moral judgment. War is a world apart, where life itself is at stake, where human nature is reduced to its elemental forms, where self-interest and necessity prevail. Here men and women do what they must to save themselves and their communities, and morality and law have no place. Inter arma silent leges: in time of war the law is silent.”

Source: Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations

“There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.”

Lying Exercise Degrees Judgment Chiefs

Author:Christiaan Huygens

“Courage--judgment--integrity--dedication--these are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and the Bay State....And these are the qualities which, with God's help, this son of Massachusetts hopes will characterize our government's conduct in the four stormy years that lie ahead.”

Years States Helping Government Lying Quality Four Son Integrity Judgment Dedication Law Enforcement Historic Colony Stormy Massachusetts

Author:John F. Kennedy

“By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.”