Case Quotes
3360 quotes by 2494 authors
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When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated this way: when…
— Mencius
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She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among…
— Dean Koontz
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So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The worst case scenario sees the Amazon rainforest burning, huge amounts of methane being released by Siberian peat bogs and so on - by the…
— Mark Lynas
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Library of the Works of Ludwig von Misesâ€. Here is an article he wrote in 1951, some two years after his magnum opus Human Action…
— Ludwig von Mises
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I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them
— Michael Owen
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There must be understanding between the artist and the people. In the best ages of art that has always been the case. Genius can probably…
— Kathe Kollwitz
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The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case to a fair-minded…
— Kenneth R. Miller
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There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to…
— Nikola Tesla
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I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant…
— Constance Baker Motley
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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and…
— Edward Sapir
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A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case…
— Henry Mintzberg
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Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings…
— John Rawls
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There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas…
— Peter Weir
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What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an elite of power;…
— C. Wright Mills
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A Healing Dream can never be completely "interpreted," or fully understood. Healing Dreams want us to stop making sense; not just to crack the case,…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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The idea is not to do good because of the praise of men; but to do good because in doing good we develop godliness within…
— Lorenzo Snow
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In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends…
— Alexandre Kojeve
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What is so powerful here is that we have the first federal appellate court and it's a case coming out of Utah affirming in the…
— Evan Wolfson
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The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a…
— Daniel Levitin
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