Insofar Quotes
134 Insofar quotes by 117 unique authors
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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
— Anne Enright
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My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as…
— Jesse Eisenberg
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Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of…
— William Kristol
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I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This…
— Stanley Milgram
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My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's…
— Janet Yellen
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As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he…
— Criss Jami
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Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.
— David Hare
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Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
— Arthur Eddington
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Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
— John Hodgman
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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary…
— Bertrand Russell
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It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play…
— Will Self
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I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Insofar as she recognized at all that she was dreaming, she realized that she must be exploring her subconscious mind. She had heard it said…
— Douglas Adams
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Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our…
— Albert Einstein
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Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of…
— Karl Marx
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There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a…
— Jacqueline Carey
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The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life…
— Albert Einstein
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His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner…
— Milan Kundera
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I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else…
— Michel Foucault
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What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us…
— Gilles Deleuze
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