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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist
Judgement

"Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe."

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Tim Robbins Actor, Director
Judgement

"When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
Judgement

"Unfortunately, all life on earth - the only life we know - represents, for all its current variety, the results of a single experiment , for every earthly species evolved from the common ancestry of a single origin. We desperately need a repetition of the experiment (several would be better, but let's not be greedy!) in order to make a judgement. Mars represents our first real hope for a second experiment - the sine qua non - for any proper answer for the question of questions."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
Judgement

"It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements."

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter
Judgement

"You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong."

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Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet
Judgement

"Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link."

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
Judgement

"And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone."

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