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«As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.»
Author: Felix Frankfurter
(Jurist)
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Constitution
| Keywords:
deem, in writing, justified, mischievous, notions
«I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.»
Author: Calvin Coolidge
(President)
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advisable, consequence, deem, deeming, deems, heed, invariably, proclaim
«To God all things are beautiful, good, and right; human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish»
«. . . I would stand,If the night blackened with a coming storm,Beneath some rock, listening to notes that areThe ghostly language of the ancient earth,Or make their dim abode in distant winds.Thence did I drink the visionary power;And deem not profitless those fleeting moodsOf shadowy exultation: not for this,That they are kindred to our purer mindAnd intellectual life; but that the soul,Remembering how she felt, but what she feltRemembering not, retains an obscure senseOf possible sublimity. . . .»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
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«Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions»
«There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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deem, deeming, deems
«They deem him the worst enemy who tells them the truth»
«I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me»
«We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
deem, deeming, deems, despise, elects, grown, join, lacking, literally, pant, scramble, scrambled, scrambles, simplified, simplifies, simplify, simplifying, spiritless, The General
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