Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.
And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.
I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.
Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.
Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.