Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen — John Adams Copy Share Image
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during… — Jo Bonner Copy Share Image
Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Meaning coming from feeling, feeling coming from within, you absorb a massive amount of information, it goes through your whole body, a… — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it… — Arthur Quiller-Couch Copy Share Image
Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of… — William James Copy Share Image
Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important .… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest scientific deception of the IPCC is the abuse and misuse of computer climate models. They allow them to make… — Timothy Ball Copy Share Image
It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
He is greatly honored by the time we take to weigh with mature deliberation matters having to do with his service, as… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country. — F. David Mathews Copy Share Image
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“careful deliberation. Parties on all sides agreed that whichever way the president came down, the implications were sure to be momentous. In… — Andrew J. Bacevich Copy Share Image
He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Though they play an important role in the early stages, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex, or restrictive. Remember, you… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
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