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«One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it»
«The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.»
Author: Henry Steele Commager
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Censorship
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censorship, defeats, discretion, exercising
«Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.»
Author: Donald Rumsfeld
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Bureaucracy,
Solution
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bureaucracy, delay, discretion, executing, expense, proposed, solutions
«Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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discretion, disguised, distrust, implies, intervention, interventions, mask, mutual, preserving, prevail, reserve, solicitude, The Mask
«Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.»
«The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.»
«Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Skepticism
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chastity, comer, comers, coolly, discretion, nobility, preserving, proudly, ripeness, shameful, skepticism, too soon
«So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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chastity, compensate, compensated, compensates, compensating, cruel, discretion, display, employ, force of law, in public, loud, obliged, obliges, obliging, privacy, such as
«The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life»
«The better part of valour is discretion.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Heroism
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discretion, valour
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