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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
-- Horace⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Horace #Communication #Discretion
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
-- Horace⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Horace #Communication #Discretion
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico
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To go on with my advice (that is, supposing
You need advice from me): Be careful about
The things you say and the people to whom you say them.
Avoid the man who asks too many questions.
No question but he’ll be a teller of tales;
An ear that eager can’t keep a secret for long,
And once a word slips out it won’t come back.
[Protinus ut moneam (si quid monitoris eges tu)
quid de quoque viro et cui dicas, saepe videto,
percontatorem fugito: nam garrulus idem est,
nec retinent patulae commissa fideliter aures,
et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 18 “To Lollius,” l. 67ff (1.18.67-71) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/20802/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #caution #circumspection #confidence #confidentiality #discretion #gossip #hearsay #informer #prattle #prudence #secrecy #secret #tattle #trustworthiness
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Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning Paramount+ Series ‘Discretion’ Casts Josh Lucas
#Variety #News #Discretion #JoshLucas #Paramount -
Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning Paramount+ Series ‘Discretion’ Casts Josh Lucas
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Josh Lucas Joins Nicole Kidman & Elle Fanning In Paramount+ Legal Drama ‘Discretion’
#Casting #News #Discretion #ElleFanning #JoshLucas #NicoleKidman #Paramounthttps://deadline.com/2026/07/josh-lucas-discretion-nicole-kidman-elle-fanning-paramount-1236998810/
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Josh Lucas Joins Nicole Kidman & Elle Fanning In Paramount+ Legal Drama ‘Discretion’
#Casting #News #Discretion #ElleFanning #JoshLucas #NicoleKidman #Paramounthttps://deadline.com/2026/07/josh-lucas-discretion-nicole-kidman-elle-fanning-paramount-1236998810/
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Keep matters for a time in suspense. Admiration at their novelty heightens the value of your achievements, It is both useless and insipid to play with the cards on the table. If you do not declare yourself immediately, you arouse expectation, especially when the importance of your position makes you the object of general attention. Mix a little mystery with everything, and the very mystery arouses veneration. And when you explain, be not too explicit, just as you do not expose your inmost thoughts in ordinary intercourse. Cautious silence is the holy of holies of worldly wisdom. A resolution declared is never highly thought of; it only leaves room for criticism. And if it happens to fail, you are doubly unfortunate.
Besides you imitate the Divine way when you cause men to wonder and watch.
[Llevar sus cosas con suspensión. La admiración de la novedad es estimación de los aciertos. El jugar a juego descubierto ni es de utilidad ni de gusto. El no declararse luego suspende, y más donde la sublimidad del empleo da objeto a la universal expectación; amaga misterio en todo, y con su misma arcanidad provoca la veneración. Aun en el darse a entender se ha de huir la llaneza, así como ni en el trato se ha de permitir el interior a todos. Es el recatado silencio sagrado de la cordura. La resolución declarada nunca fue estimada; antes se permite a la censura, y si saliere azar, será dos veces infeliz.
Imítese, pues, el proceder divino para hacer estar a la mira y al desvelo.]Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 3 (1647) [tr. Jacobs (1892)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #gracian #baltasargracian #anticipation #discretion #divineplan #divinepurpose #expectations #ineffability #mystery #obscurity #secrecy #silence #suspense #uncertainty
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Don’t write anything you can phone. Don’t phone anything you can talk. Don’t talk anything you can whisper. Don’t whisper anything you can smile. Don’t smile anything you can nod. Don’t nod anything you can wink.
Earl Kemp Long (1895-1960) American politician, orator.
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/long-earl/6396/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #earllong #hueylong #communication #detection #discretion #offtherecord #secrecy #trail #evidence #surveillance
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#discretion : the quality of behaving quietly to avoid offense
- French: discretion
- German: das Ermessen
- Italian: discrezione
- Portuguese: discrição
- Spanish: discreción
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Paramount+ Signs Matt Shakman to Direct Legal Thriller ‘Discretion’
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Paramount+ Signs Matt Shakman to Direct Legal Thriller ‘Discretion’
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Matt Shakman To Direct & EP Paramount+ Series ‘Discretion’ Starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning
#News #Directing #Discretion #ElleFanning #MattShakman #NicoleKidman #Paramounthttps://deadline.com/2026/06/matt-shakman-direct-discretion-nicole-kidman-elle-fanning-1236952872/
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Matt Shakman To Direct & EP Paramount+ Series ‘Discretion’ Starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning
#News #Directing #Discretion #ElleFanning #MattShakman #NicoleKidman #Paramounthttps://deadline.com/2026/06/matt-shakman-direct-discretion-nicole-kidman-elle-fanning-1236952872/
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of enterprise by which every thing is done that can claim praise or admiration; and represses that generous temerity which often fails and often succeeds. Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties; and prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-05-19), The Idler, No. 57More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2133/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #caution #circumspection #commonsense #discretion #happiness #prudence #safety #shrewdness #takingcare #wariness
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of enterprise by which every thing is done that can claim praise or admiration; and represses that generous temerity which often fails and often succeeds. Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties; and prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-05-19), The Idler, No. 57More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2133/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #caution #circumspection #commonsense #discretion #happiness #prudence #safety #shrewdness #takingcare #wariness
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#discretion : cautious discernment, especially as to matters of propriety and self-control
- French: discretion
- German: das Ermessen
- Italian: discrezione
- Portuguese: discrição
- Spanish: discreción
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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form
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#discretion : cautious discernment, especially as to matters of propriety and self-control
- French: discretion
- German: das Ermessen
- Italian: discrezione
- Portuguese: discrição
- Spanish: discreción
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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
True eloquence consists in saying all that need be said and no more.
[La véritable éloquence consiste à dire tout ce qu’il faut, et à ne dire que ce qu’il faut.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶250 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #communication #discretion #eloquence #necessary #needful #propriety #requirement #silence #speaking
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#Daikin #DaikinHVAC #DaikinFrance #ClimatisationGainable #GainableDaikin #Climatisation #Chauffage #ClimReversible #PompeAChaleur #PAC #HVAC #GenieClimatique #ConfortThermique #Discretion #IntegrationPlafond #MaisonConnectee #SmartHome #Domotique #ControleADistance #PilotageClim #RegulationThermique #Zonage #Zoning #InstallationClim #EconomieDEnergie #EfficaciteEnergetique #BatimentIntelligent #ResidentialHVAC #CommercialHVAC
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
A man always is to be himself the judge of how much of his mind he will show to other men; even to those he would have work along with him. There are impertinent inquiries made: your rule is to leave the inquirer uninformed on that matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed; but precisely as dark as he was!
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Lecture (1840-05-22), “The Hero as King,” Home House, Portman Square, LondonMore info about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/22409…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #discretion #impertinence #innerself #privacy #privatelife #snooping #trueself
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A quotation from Henry Steele Commager
Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion, incapable, that is, of doing an honest or intelligent job, and thus guarantees a steady intellectual decline.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1953-02-21), “Is Freedom Really Necessary?” Saturday ReviewMore info about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #analysis #censorship #decline #discretion #intelligence #judgment
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A quotation from Henry Steele Commager
Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion, incapable, that is, of doing an honest or intelligent job, and thus guarantees a steady intellectual decline.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1953-02-21), “Is Freedom Really Necessary?” Saturday ReviewMore info about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #analysis #censorship #decline #discretion #intelligence #judgment
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#discretion : cautious discernment, especially as to matters of propriety and self-control
- French: discretion
- German: das Ermessen
- Italian: discrezione
- Portuguese: discrição
- Spanish: discreción
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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form
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Paramount+ Lands Nicole Kidman-Elle Fanning Drama ‘Discretion’
#TV #TVNews #A24 #Discretion #ElleFanning #NicoleKidman #Paramount -
Paramount+ Lands Nicole Kidman-Elle Fanning Drama ‘Discretion’
#TV #TVNews #A24 #Discretion #ElleFanning #NicoleKidman #Paramount -
Paramount+ Lands Nicole Kidman-Elle Fanning Drama ‘Discrection’
#TV #TVNews #A24 #Discretion #ElleFanning #NicoleKidman #Paramount -
Paramount+ Lands Nicole Kidman-Elle Fanning Drama ‘Discrection’
#TV #TVNews #A24 #Discretion #ElleFanning #NicoleKidman #Paramount -
Paramount+ Lands ‘Discretion’ Starring Nicole Kidman & Elle Fanning With Straight-To-Series Order In Major Move For New Regime
#News #ChandlerBaker #Discretion #ElleFanning #NicoleKidman #Paramount #SusannahGrant -
Paramount+ Lands ‘Discretion’ Starring Nicole Kidman & Elle Fanning With Straight-To-Series Order In Major Move For New Regime
#News #ChandlerBaker #Discretion #ElleFanning #NicoleKidman #Paramount #SusannahGrant -
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
-- Horace -
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
-- Horace -
Nicole Kidman & Elle Fanning Attached To Star In Legal Series ‘Discretion’ In The Works At A24
#News #A24 #ChandlerBaker #Discretion #ElleFanning #NicoleKidman #SusannahGranthttps://deadline.com/2025/09/nicole-kidman-elle-fanning-discretion-a24-1236545766/
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Nicole Kidman & Elle Fanning Attached To Star In Legal Series ‘Discretion’ In The Works At A24
#News #A24 #ChandlerBaker #Discretion #ElleFanning #NicoleKidman #SusannahGranthttps://deadline.com/2025/09/nicole-kidman-elle-fanning-discretion-a24-1236545766/
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Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning to Star in A24 Legal Thriller Series ‘Discretion’
#Variety #News #Discretion #ElleFanning #NicoleKidmanhttps://variety.com/2025/tv/news/nicole-kidman-elle-fanning-a24-legal-show-discretion-1236520810/
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Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning to Star in A24 Legal Thriller Series ‘Discretion’
#Variety #News #Discretion #ElleFanning #NicoleKidmanhttps://variety.com/2025/tv/news/nicole-kidman-elle-fanning-a24-legal-show-discretion-1236520810/
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If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1741 ed.)More info about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/22…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #discretion #keepquiet #secrecy #secret #silence
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts I suppose the first effect would be that almost all friendships would be dissolved.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/783…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #candor #discretion #frankness #friendship #mindreading #secrets #telepathy #whitelies
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Don’t put into a chatbot convo what you wouldn’t want printed on the front page of the New York Times nor Wall Street Journal.
https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/chatgpt-confessions-gone-they-are
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Don’t put into a chatbot convo what you wouldn’t want printed on the front page of the New York Times nor Wall Street Journal.
https://www.digitaldigging.org/p/chatgpt-confessions-gone-they-are
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#discretion : cautious discernment, especially as to matters of propriety and self-control
- French: discretion
- German: das Ermessen
- Italian: discrezione
- Portuguese: discrição
- Spanish: discreción
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
'Twill be wiser to run away when thou hast no Remedy, than to die in the Field foolishly.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 1890 (1727)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #conflict #discretion #retreat #solution #trouble #withdrawal
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Naviguer un coup de cœur pour un collègue nécessite de reconnaître ses sentiments, d'évaluer la situation professionnelle, de rester discret et d'établir des limites. A lire ici --> https://wp.me/pbyKZP-1bb7 #coupdecoeur #drague #beauxmecs #bureau #excitation #discretion #beauxgosses #Crush #collègues #gay
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1739 ed.)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/76…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #PoorRichardsAlamanack #bragging #boasting #discretion #ego #reticence #silence
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A quotation from Judith Martin
If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1982-08-28)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/2703/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #missmanners #ambiguity #courtesy #discretion #equivocation #gentility #kindness #mildness #vagueness
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
-- Francis Bacon⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrancisBacon #Discretion
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #CoyoteButtesNorth #TheWave #VermilionCliffs #Utah
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
-- Francis Bacon⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrancisBacon #Discretion
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #CoyoteButtesNorth #TheWave #VermilionCliffs #Utah
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[Even] the wise act within the limitations of their own nature.
- Sri Krishna, 3-33#Sanskrit: स्वदृशं चेष्टते स्वस्याः प्रकृतेर्ज्ञानवानपि
#Kannada script: ಸ್ವದೃಶಂ ಚೇಷ್ಟತೇ ಸ್ವಸ್ಯಾಃ ಪ್ರಕೃತೇರ್ಜ್ಞಾನವಾನಪಿ#philosophy #easternPhilosophy #gita #discretion #wisdom #awareness
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#NewHampshire #Legislature #Repeals Several #Protections Against #Trans #Discrimination.
#Bill legalizes #discrimination by #privateentities, allowing #private #businesses, to #exclude #transgender individuals at the #owner's #discretion.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #NewHampshire #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-hampshire-repeals-several-protections
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CW: rant re: recruitment and HR, false priorities
Cuz #discretion and #confidentiality goes both ways...
And as much as I don't post stuff about clients, I also do expect any employer to accept that anything beyond my employment and commute is none of their business.
If I open up over time that's one thing, but one doesn't become a more "friendly" employer by forcibly socializing people beyond the boundaries of professional work manners...
Seriously, why are #neurotypicals like that???
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Ok folx, I am sort of losing my sh**. In light of my earlier thread (linked to in next tweet) what is going on with a secret #judicial #discretion #law conference with no listed speakers and by invitation only? Why is it even on the web then? So confusing. https://www.law.uchicago.edu/2023-judicial-discretion-conference
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US Military Continues To Violate The Law By Limiting Access To Court Records
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/21/us-military-continues-to-violate-the-law-by-limiting-access-to-court-records/
#accesstocourtdocuments #transparency #discretion #military #dod #1 -
#January 1, 1944
#OTD Sir Edwin "Ned" Lutyens, English #Architect, died.In #Midlife, he started working w/ #Gertrude Jekyll & together, they created #Stunning English #Country Garden properties.
#Deanery Garden is arguably Ned's best country home;
#LedZeppelin #Guitarist Jimmy Page now owns it.Ned wrote:
No #Artist has so wide a #Palette as the #GardenDesigner,
and no artist is in greater need of #Discretion and #Reserve. -
#Character is revealed by action. (#Aristotle)
#Action is discrete. (#Planck)
\(\therefore\) The better part of valour is #Discretion. (#Shakespeare)
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2014/09/28/character-action-discretion/
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Some relevant hashtags for this new position: #expertise, #knowledge, #STS, #professions, #culture, #AI, #automation, #technology, #digitalization, #theorizing, #QualitativeMethods, #education, #healthcare, #imaginaries, #narratives, #discretion, #commodon, #Medsoc, #Sociology #ethnography, #standardization, #identity, #interactionism
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#Character, #Action, #Discretion
Character is revealed by action. (Aristotle)
Action is discrete. (Planck)
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The better part of valour is discretion. (Shakespeare)• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2014/09/28/character-action-discretion/
