Incompatible Quotes
170 quotes by 151 authors
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Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace.
— Bertrand Russell
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At the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration [i.e., the First Amendment], the general, if…
— Joseph Story
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The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that…
— Roy Jenkins
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Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into…
— Louis de Broglie
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The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an…
— Paul Dirac
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.
— John Ortberg
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The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
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I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique. I didn't feel inferior so…
— Max Barry
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By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible…
— Ted Chiang
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Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all…
— Donna J. Haraway
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Maximum growth and high ideals are not incompatible. They’re inseparable.
— Jim Stengel
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Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.
— Jacques Ellul
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It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why?…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when…
— Isaiah Berlin
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But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was…
— Richard Posner
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
— Zhang Ziyi
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In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire…
— Gustav Stresemann
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Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that…
— Lebbeus Woods
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The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The…
— Billy Graham
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