Adherents Quotes

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Observing that the market was FREQUENTLY efficient, EMT Adherents went on to conclude incorrectly that it was ALWAYS efficient. The difference between these propositions is… — Warren Buffett
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two… — Alfred North Whitehead
Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own… — Eric Hoffer
This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of… — H.G. Wells
When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of trying… — Don Feder
All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they… — Eric Hoffer
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people… — David Lloyd George
In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all… — Gunnar Myrdal
[G]overnment endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political… — Sandra Day O'Connor
The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of… — Sydney J. Harris
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as… — Anthony Storr
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its… — Adam Gopnik
The theory of Reincarnation, which originated in India, has been welcomed in other countries. Without doubt, it is one of the most sensible and satisfying… — Luther Burbank
Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more… — Criss Jami
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. — Khalil Gibran
Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance.… — Sam Harris
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. — Christopher Lasch
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. — George Orwell
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents,… — Benito Mussolini
The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but… — Ming-Dao Deng

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