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Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
For too long we have occupied ourselves with responding to the consequences of cruelty and abuse and have neglected the important task… — John Hoyt Copy Share Image
As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
The thing that has always interested me in the kinds of shows that I do have more to do with the consequences… — Steven Bochco Copy Share Image
Accounting is a big subject and there are huge forces in play. The entire momentum of existing thinking and existing custom is… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to… — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a… — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I'm trying to honestly do what I want to do, in the most honest way, and not worry about the consequences, because… — Gary Louris Copy Share Image
The modern concept of separation is an argument for a total separation of religion from the state. The consequence of the acceptance… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I have somewhere heard or read the frank confession of a Benedictine abbot: "My vow of poverty has given me a hundred… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If we are paying attention to something, it's important. That's how we decide to pay attention. But a communicator can reroute our… — Robert Cialdini Copy Share Image
Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls,… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature,… — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the… — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad… — Steven M. Stanley Copy Share Image
I gravitate towards the utopian potentials of digital space (post race, post gender, post human etc.), but understand that people live in… — Saya Woolfalk Copy Share Image
For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know. The day will come… — Richard Bode Copy Share Image
He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
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If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer,… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy,… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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