Instances Quotes
211 quotes by 176 authors
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Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in…
— Bob Beauprez
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious…
— Felix Adler
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The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City…
— Candace Bushnell
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The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
— Hillary Clinton
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Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
— Sidney Altman
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We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they…
— Ronald Reagan
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
— Mark Twain
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect…
— David Hume
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Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which…
— George Washington
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And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches…
— John Stuart Mill
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by…
— Martin Gardner
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If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it…
— George Polya
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
— Will Durant
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There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,…
— James Madison
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Astrology is a fact, in most instances. But astrological aspects are but signs, symbols. No influence is of greater value or of greater help than…
— Edgar Cayce
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But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall…
— David Hume
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Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that…
— Arthur Lynch
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Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.
— John Lyman Chatfield
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