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I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.


Sandra Day O'Connor


#concentrate #decision #deem #faced #fair

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism.


Elihu Root


#begin #causes #civilization #deal #extent

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.


Goldwin Smith


#cause #dante #eyes #god #ground

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.


Arnold Bennett


#godlike #impartiality #judging #remember #same

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.


Ambrose Bierce


#any #controversy #either #impartial #perceive

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial reader.


James Buchan


#authors #cutting #disgust #effects #favourite

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#early #early childhood #exercising #faculty #had

We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.


Robert Toombs


#challenge #every #history #injustice #north

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.


Oscar Wilde


#art #equally #impartially #only #schools

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.


Charles E. Wilson


#backward #case #certainly #countries #crop






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