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Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer
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"Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs."

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
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"To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging."

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Margaret Thatcher Politician
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"Of course you have a duty to show the disfigurations of society as well as its more agreeable aspects. But if TV in the western world uses its freedom continually to show all that is worst in our society, while the centrally controlled television of the Communist world and the dictatorships show only what is judged advantageous to them and suppress everything else, how are the uncommitted to judge between us? How can they fail to misjudge if they view matters only through a distorted mirror?"

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Leon Brown Artist
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"Do not judge others by your own standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best."

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Miguel Angel Ruiz Author, Spiritual Teacher
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"Know that truth, forgiveness, and love can heal the world. Imagine if all of us could be truthful with ourselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone. We would no longer be selfish, gossiping would be over, and we would no longer judge one another. The world would become a place where all of us live in love."

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Milan Kundera Writer
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"Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the view­point of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
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"Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher."

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Edward Kennedy Politician
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"Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess the proper balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our national security."

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