"In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself."
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"In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since"
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"One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions."
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"Thus it is thought that justice is equality; and so it is, but not for all persons, only for those that are equal. Inequality also is thought to be just; and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequal. We make bad mistakes if we neglect this for whom when we are deciding what is just. The reason is that we are making judgements about ourselves, and people are generally bad judges where their own interests are involved."
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"They who are to be judges must also be performers."
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"The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing."
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"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."
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"To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures."
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"For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all"
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"What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves."
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"I still got a lot of grudges, it's high time we take out some judges."
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"Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language."
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"It is a sin to judge any man by his post"
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"Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment."
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"Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing a worse present state with a better which is past, you cannot but feel sorrow. It is not cured by reason, but by the incursion of present objects, which bear out the past."
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"Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little"
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"As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law."
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"Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain."
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"No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape."
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"When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn't judge you. Who are you to judge?"
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