Highly Quotes
1183 quotes by 963 authors
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Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't…
— Eliot Ness
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It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism…
— Thomas Nagel
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It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism…
— Thomas Nagel
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The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and…
— Thorstein Veblen
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Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you…
— Karin Slaughter
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The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if the big bang…
— Brian Greene
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The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations…
— Christopher Ricks
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What we found was that rather than being haphazardly arranged or independent pathways, we find that all of the pathways of the brain taken together…
— Ray Kurzweil
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My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up…
— Robert M. Price
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I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent in a great…
— Pete La Roca
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It always amazes me how many women like dangerous men. Men who almost from the moment you meet them, you know are bad news. Me,…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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It is highly unlikely that an airplane, or fleet of them, could ever sink a fleet of Navy vessels under battle conditions.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies…
— Barry Diller
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My father has always prayed that his words would reflect God's standard of truth as the basis to claim, 'I have given them Your word'…
— Franklin Graham
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Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were…
— Ben Bernanke
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I think there are some groups of stocks that are highly vulnerable because they're in cuckoo land in terms of valuations,
— Marc Faber
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If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.
— Yukio Mishima
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We tend to suffer from the illusion that we are capable of dying for a belief or theory. What Hagakure is insisting is that even…
— Yukio Mishima
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When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating…
— Novalis
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I've always thought that problem-solving is highly overrated and that problem creation is far more interesting.
— Chuck Close
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