Fixed Quotes

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Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers to an industry… — Fritz Machlup
The more clear and definite you make your picture then,and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your… — Wallace D. Wattles
I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever… — Thurgood Marshall
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,… — William Faulkner
The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the… — Abraham Lincoln
If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of fixed capital investment… — Marilyn Waring
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it. — Victor Hugo
It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class… — Michael Parenti
Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed? — Alexander Hamilton
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose-the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a… — David Karp
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence… — Andrew Solomon
These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that… — William Shakespeare
We Jews have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns. With their eye's… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car… — Marc Maron
Flow in the living moment. â€” We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and… — Bruce Lee

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