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Opportunity is lost by deliberation.
The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.
We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.
Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
And Beasts that have Deliberation , must necessarily also have Will .
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.
Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.
We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
After much deliberation I have made the decision to retire from playing international football.
Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.
The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.
The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).
I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after careful deliberation. My voting record reflects this.
After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.
Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.
But Germany is a reflective power: even as it adapts, a belief in the importance of restraint, deliberation, and peaceful negotiation will continue to guide its interactions with the rest of the world.
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.
Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action under the heavy pressure of never-ending internal debate.
Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we should reach a consensus - not perfect, by any means - but something that we can be proud of, nonetheless.
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.
The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose of deliberation and debate, as well as input from both the majority and minority parties - it arrives at a result that is acceptable to people all along the political spectrum.
Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption.