Discretion Quotes
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Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
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The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.
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Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.
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By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.
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The judicial discretion has been fettered greatly by the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
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Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.
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The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.
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Discretion is the most important thing for a banker. That is the philosophy of the family... I mean, of the bank.
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This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.
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He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.
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I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
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Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.
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When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.
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Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
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Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of grace or of discretion.
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We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case.
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Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.
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Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
