We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
People are fascinated by evil because its mysterious and it doesnt seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I think comprehensive immigration reform while securing your border and dealing rationale with 11 million is the only way we're going to… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition… — Larry Laudan Copy Share Image
I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The paradigm helps a person identify the thought system, which is almost always false, that is behind the rationale for the continuation… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
[D]ecade after decade, through taxes and regulations, governments at all levels took ever-increasing control over people's lives, wealth, and property. The control… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it had no other rationale than to show that we are not simply the country of entertainers,… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Yet spiritual realizations often remain compartmentalized, apart from everyday life, or become used as a rationale for living in an impersonal or… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
NBA has a selfish rationale. It saves the owners money by delaying the time a player gets to a second, more lucrative… — Sonny Vaccaro Copy Share Image
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
That's an astonishment that we're waiting to find out what the [Donald Trump] policy is, that was the central plank, the central… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Give a small number of people the power to enrich themselves beyond everyone's wildest dreams, a philosophical rationale to explain all the… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come… — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what… — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free… — Ian Macfarlane Copy Share Image
My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
FDA, which regulates the safety of vegetables, doesn't have those kinds of rules because Congress doesn't want it to. It's not that… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck'… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
Philosophers, comedians, and tipsy birthday celebrants all have proposed theories about why time seems to move increasingly swiftly as we grow older.… — Michael Sims Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
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