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«Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.»

«It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature»

«It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease»

«Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.»

«I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.»

«Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.»

«It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.»

«From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.»

«It is only after time has been given for a cool and deliberate reflection that the real voice of the people can be known»

«And that's how the book grew. That is, I wrote that same story four times. None of them were right, but I had anguished so much that I could not throw any of it away and start over, so I printed it in the four sections. That was not a deliberate tour de force at all, the book just grew that way. That I was still trying to tell one story which moved me very much and each time I failed, but I had put so much anguish into it that I couldn't throw it away, like the mother that had four bad children, that she would have been better off if they all had been eliminated, But she couldn't relinquish any of them. And that's the reason I have the most tenderness for that book, because it failed four times.»