"One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant."
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"The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold."
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"When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us."
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"Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences"
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"Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege."
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"If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge."
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"All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a judgment on someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge anything. That's the lesson I've learned"
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"If you read, you'll judge."
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"I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too."
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"The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of the murderer in his own soul and hears the murderer's voice as his own, is at the next moment one and indivisible as the judge, and scuttles back into the shell of his cultivated self and does his duty and condemns the murderer to death."
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"If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly."
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"Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result."
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"Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different."
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"I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing."
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"The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand."
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"God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple."
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"Work som', twerk som' basis. She just tryna make it so she's right here gettin naked. I don't judge her-I don't judge her. But I could never love her cause to her I'm just a rapper and soon she'll have met another."
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"...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse."
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"The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church."
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"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."
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