If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District,… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Tim Kaine has been obviously a governor. He's been a senator. He's one of the smartest rising stars in the Democratic Party.… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
I think that's a plausible strategy. But I also think there is a case to be made that [Hillary] Clinton actually in… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
The likely economic effects [of the war in Iraq] would be relatively small... Under every plausible scenario, the negative effect will be… — Lawrence B. Lindsey Copy Share Image
“Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The doctrine of transmigrationÂ… was a means of constructing a plausible vindication of the ways of the cosmos to man; Â… none… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
The Pixar people continuously amaze me. They come up with something that actually looks as though it takes place in this happy,… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry - some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society… — William Greider Copy Share Image
I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The moral law is a reason to think of God as plausible - not just a God who sets the universe in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must… — Charles Edward Merriam Copy Share Image
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time… — Gideon Rachman Copy Share Image
“Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would… — Tim Horvath Copy Share Image
The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can… — Alexi Lalas Copy Share Image
The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible… — Wassily Leontief Copy Share Image
We must embrace a new agenda based on inclusiveness; a commitment to reconnecting the social and the economic; a relinking of the… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they… — D. Michael Quinn Copy Share Image
Either the phone is so seriously thin and flimsy that it is bendable with mere physical force, which I cannot believe given… — Uri Geller Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions,… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image