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I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

~Adam Lambert

Topics: Child Discern Parents Television Think Up Watching I Think

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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Conclusions Discern Draw Genius Having Just Know Learned Soul Things Unknown Without

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Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Ability About Bad Chefs Confidence Cooks Decisions Discern Everybody Everyone Everything Fake Fear Food Indifferent Lack Lives Love Made Make No Love People Please Please Everyone Pride Shows Trying Who Without

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What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is breathed into lawyers when they become Justices of this Court that enables them to discern that a practice which the text of the Constitution does not clearly proscribe, and which our people have regarded as constitutional for 200 years, is in fact unconstitutional?

~Antonin Scalia

Topics: Become Breathed Clearly Constitution Constitutional Court Discern Does Enables Fact In Fact Justices Knowledge Lawyers Must Our Our People People Practice Regarded Secret Text Them Unconstitutional Which Wonder Years

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A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of a creature - to discover its true nature - other than by close and respectful observation?

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Being Close Creature Discern Discover Gears How Intentions Living Mere Nature Novel Observation Other Respectful Than True True Nature Wild You

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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

~Carl Jung

Topics: As Far As Being Darkness Discern Existence Far Human Human Existence Kindle Light Mere Purpose Sole

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Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting the elderly, the line between advertising and unscrupulous manipulation will be harder to discern.

~Charles Duhigg

Topics: Advertising Before Better Between Dies Discern Elderly Eventually Everyone Faculties Get Harder Line Lose Manipulation Marketers Most People Some Some People Targeting Will Worry

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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

~Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Topics: Clever Discern Discover Fool Man More Much Necessary Possess Succeed Than Who World

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Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics. That said, not every election sends sweeping messages that are easy to discern, but every election provides lessons worth learning.

~Chuck Todd

Topics: Anyone Discern Easy Election Every Learning Lessons Matters Messages Otherwise Politics Provides Said Sends Sweeping Tells Understand Worth You

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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

~Daniel Alarcon

Topics: Any Discern Hard Impact Own Particular Work Writer Your

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