“It goes right back to the idea of the Power of Positive Thinking, which is so strong in America because it fits… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
But only a candidate who rejects wishful thinking, has the courage to tell the truth about the options in front of us… — David Gauke Copy Share Image
“This life is only a test' is a counter-productive mindset; it encourages wishful thinking toward and elusive and likely non-existent afterlife while… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“Peace in your heart, joy in your smile and love in your lifsomething that’s beautiful.. Whatever be your emotions tonight, never dispel… — Tasneem Rawat Copy Share Image
“To think that we can or should all ‘go Amish’ and stick our heads in the sand with regard to technology is… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement, increased immigration… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
“Could it be that he felt sorry for me after all? Or that his hostile attitude was really a cover up, designed… — A.B.Whelan Copy Share Image
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I suspect that, though Craig indulges in a bit of wishful thinking, playing taps for various critical approaches still quite far from… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding… — Irving Langmuir Copy Share Image
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This will not be my fate,” I said firmly, confidently. “And it won’t be Lillatta’s and maybe not even yours, though that… — Michael Puttonen Copy Share Image
“When Jim was growing up, good colleges were challenging to get into, but it wasn't like it is today, when being a… — Kate Fagan Copy Share Image
“If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. I'm talking to you… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
“There’s something almost magical dancing around us, like I’m inside a cloud nebula and we’re creating our own star. I think he… — N.K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Christian legend later claimed that Peter also went to Rome and there became head of the Christian community, that is, a bishop.… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
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“Man fails to do the works of Jesus Christ because he attempts to accomplish them from his present level of consciousness. You… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as positive thinking. There is, however, positive acting and positive doing, and positive being. Positive thinking is the… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
And I have learned not to rely on all the promises you make, 'Cause when you play with fire, getting burned is… — WoeIs Me Copy Share Image
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
In Marxism there are some very unhelpful ideas about the need to push for a revolution that will overturn all of society.… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
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“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The con is a kind of jiu-jitsu that turns the sucker's own greed into its principal weapon. The greedier you are the… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
“Can I borrow your phone?" she asked. I frowned, unsure what she would do. "Sure." I pulled my phone from my pocket,… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Use whatever excuse you can to vibrate in harmony with those things you've been saying you want. And when you do, those… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“Of course, I quite agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable comfort. But it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“From the outset, it was clear to me that Boot’s dictum was wishful thinking. Already the Bush doctrine had made a vicious… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
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The article goes on later to say, "Hope is not then something for the future alone, a sort of wishful thinking aout… — Raymond J. de Souza Copy Share Image
“Hope is one of the theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not, as some… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
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