"Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion."
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"And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other."
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"Life is a predicament which precedes death."
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"Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves."
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"Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous."
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"Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age."
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"A traditionalist can sometimes be looked at as someone who is a fundamentalist, or they can be looked at as someone with a very strict set of understandings of human nature. But a traditionalist in the Vedic tradition, is one who is open-hearted, who does not judge, there's nothing to judge whatsoever, who understands the basic understanding and karma of all of it, and who basically helps when help is called for."
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"Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable."
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"If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself."
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"When we judge others we leave no room to love them."
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"We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case."
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"It's very clear that we are going to have 10 different [abortion] laws and that we are going to have these laws made by judges"
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"Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme."
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"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice."
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"A fixed habit is supported by old, well-worn pathways in the brain. When you make conscious choices to change a habit, you create new pathways. At the same time, you strengthen the decision-making function of the cerebral cortex while diminishing the grip of the lower, instinctual brain. So without judging your habit, whether it feels like a good one or a bad one, take time to break the routine, automatic response that habit imposes."
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"People will judge you according to your own convictions."
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"If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals."
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"To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge."
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"All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly."
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"The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more."
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