Considerations Quotes
148 quotes by 135 authors
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by…
— Jacques Monod
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The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences…
— Ray Lankester
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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this connection is the…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in…
— J. William Fulbright
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I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty…
— Benjamin F. Wade
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A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws…
— Arthur Eddington
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Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,…
— James Madison
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The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.
— Paolo Veronese
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Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they…
— Tsung-Dao Lee
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to…
— Albert Einstein
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In Mendrisio I felt it - the exhilaration of what the bike has to offer. It's a simple machine that conjures a vast mix of…
— Cadel Evans
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The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.
— Edward Snowden
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Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the…
— Gerald Heaney
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