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“The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.”

People Bigs Form Leader Judging Ordinary Aim Debate Setting Settings Ordinary People Aim High

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.”

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Book:Pascal Pensées

Source: Pascal Pensées

“Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.”

Feelings Walks Conditions Dangerous Judging Ordinary Weak Strive Saint Walk By Faith

Author:Thomas Brooks

“The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.”

People Way Judging Genius Ordinary Spending Inclination

Book:The accidence: or, First rudiments of English grammar. Designed for the use of young ladies

Source: The accidence: or, First rudiments of English grammar. Designed for the use of young ladies

“There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.”

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether a particular rule of law was consonant with principles of higher law. This view is reflected in John Adams' statement that it would be an 'absurdity' for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, 'against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.'”

“General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.”

Men Should Wells Doubt Judging Ordinary Capacity Affair Ignorant No Doubt Old Man Uneducated Public Affairs

Author:James K. Polk

“American views today are weak, confused, and divided. On one side, many progressive liberals still think that we humans are essentially good and getting better and better. On the other side, many postmoderns actually think it is worse to judge evil than to do evil. And in the middle, many ordinary folk plaster life with rainbows and smile buttons and wander through life on the basis of sentiment and clichés.”

Thinking Humans Stills Today Evil Sides Views Middle Judging Ordinary Weak Bases Folks Wander Get Better Confused Sentiments Progressive Divided Rainbow Buttons Postmodern Plasters

Author:Os Guinness

“Not that I've always agreed with what she said - far from it - but Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been properly lauded, in my view, as a judge who approached her duties with open-mindedness and with a sensitivity that affects her decisions would have on everyday, ordinary people.”

People Has Beens Said Justice Decision Views Judging Duty Ordinary Everyday Sensitivity Ordinary People Open Mindedness Sandra Day O Connor

Author:Joe Biden

“We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.”

Matter Done Judging Succeed Ordinary Worldly Cleverness Flair

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“I would go to trials a lot in Boston, as best I could. And it's incredible that, like, lawyers that had a good case weren't dramatic at all. Lawyers that had a horrible case would sing and dance and do whatever it took to convince the jury or the judge that this guy was innocent. So that was a cool thing to see because that made me believe that what the script [of From The Hip] was doing was totally believable. Now, maybe not ordinary. But it could happen.”

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Author:Judd Nelson

“Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.”

Way Firsts Kind Different Can Do Ability Seeing Awareness Judging Habit Mindfulness Ordinary Strategy Notes All Kinds Clarity Our Thoughts Lenses

Author:Mark Coleman

“There are people who disagree with the left, and that will not be tolerated. People who disagree with them, whether they are high judges, whether they are prosecutors, whether they are average ordinary every day citizens, it will not be tolerated.”

People Left Judging Citizens Ordinary Average Disagree Prosecutor

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.”

Men Would Be Powerful Power Rich Groups Judging Exercise Members Ordinary Minorities Terrified Favour Discretion Ordinary Man Prosecutor Minority Groups

Author:Conrad Black