Indefinite Quotes
83 quotes by 72 authors
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The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are…
— James Madison
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was…
— Edward Bellamy
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The indefinite combination of human fallibility and nuclear weapons will lead to the destruction of nations.
— Robert McNamara
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I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes,…
— Gerhard Richter
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The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice,…
— Robert Solow
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When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness,…
— Reinhold Messner
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The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong,…
— George Orwell
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The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; He is the way, and all other ways are no way at all. If…
— Paul Washer
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To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war.
— Michael Ignatieff
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In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.
— Erwin Schrodinger
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Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.
— Peter Thiel
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It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period…
— Jeff Bingaman
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Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it…
— Albert J. Nock
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To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.
— Michel de Certeau
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People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are…
— Felix Mendelssohn
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During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way, it's…
— Daniel Quinn
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If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's…
— Malcolm Forbes
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An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can be continued into…
— Robert Gilman
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Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist
— David Attenborough
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