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One can believe God capable of anything without believing that he did everything anybody may say he did. One can believe in… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We are told dogmatically that Evolution is an established fact; but we are never told who has established it, and by what… — Wolfgang Smith Copy Share Image
It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When I give concerts, the tickets sell for five dollars to one hundred dollars, but for my concerts the five-dollar seats are… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
No nation like the United States of America can continue to grow and be a strong nation if we are going to… — Steve King Copy Share Image
Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to… — Benjamin Bloom Copy Share Image
You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
In fact, every child on earth born after June 23, 1988 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. This generation includes some… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I want to help you," Oliver said. "Why?" Galen looked up at him. "Because of Petunia?" Oliver was relieved that the prince… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness… — May Sinclair Copy Share Image
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Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I actually feel pretty inspired and hopeful by the fact that protests are becoming the norm now. They're less part of fringe… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
I think that is a really good message, especially for young girls to hear. The fact that someone like me from the… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
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What I question is the extent to which any of us truly knows what the facts really are. I mistrust every ideal… — Boyd Rice Copy Share Image
One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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Abraham Lincoln truly inspired me. It wasn't just the freeing of the slaves, he kept the Union together. Some people even forget… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since… — Doug Davidson Copy Share Image
If all you had was academic ability, you wouldn't have been able to get out of bed this morning. In fact, there… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
All sorts of problems and the interconnectedness between them that [Buckminster Fuller] was able to perceive sometimes rightly, often wrongly, always interestingly… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Humanity thinks it needs to constantly evolve so that maybe someday, old age and sickness will be eradicated from existence. However, our… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image