Grounds Quotes
360 quotes by 316 authors
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But if the U.S. were to leave and abandon Iraq without establishing the grounds for a united and sovereign country, that would definitely be a…
— Vladimir Putin
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All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases…
— Ernest Thompson Seton
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The temptation to be popular may prioritize public opinion above the word of God. Political campaigns and marketing strategies widely employ public opinion polls to…
— Russell M. Nelson
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For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is…
— Neal Stephenson
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Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the…
— Irving Kaufman
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Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.
— Wes Fesler
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Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt and prejudice people; some are also in the…
— Martin Luther
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The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a dogma…
— Ludwig von Bertalanffy
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Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held…
— Thomas Harris
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You were probably steered benignly away from things at school when you were a kid — things you liked — on the grounds that you…
— Ken Robinson
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But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack…
— Jack Kerouac
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Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal…
— Alcee Hastings
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Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have come…
— Patricia Churchland
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The atmosphere generated by the fans in Celtic's stadium for our visit was the most impressive I've ever witnessed. The grounds of Liverpool and Manchester…
— Xavi
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Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.
— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon
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Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.
— Evan Esar
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We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such…
— Michael Polanyi
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The Great Spirit made all things. He gave the white people a home beyond the great waters. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave…
— Tecumseh
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Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and…
— Chauncey Wright
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316 authors contributed a total of 360 Grounds Quotes, led by these top contributors: