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I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead… — George Grosz
I was hoping to get a reception like this, I'd just hoped that it would be on Thursday night instead of Tuesday night. — Howard Dean
The American creationist movement has entirely bypassed the scientific forum and has concentrated instead on political lobbying and on taking its case to a fair-minded… — Kenneth R. Miller
The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it, the whole gospel… — Brian D. McLaren
I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks. — Sparky Anderson
Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an… — Erwin Chargaff
I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I do… — Geoff Dyer
Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such… — Bertrand Russell
Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of… — William Shakespeare
I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should… — Suzan-Lori Parks
People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in… — Bill Walsh
A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's.… — Andy Stanley
One of my best moves is to surround myself with friends who, instead of asking, 'Why?' are quick to say, 'Why not?' That attitude is… — Oprah Winfrey
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.… — Benjamin Franklin
.. Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually… — Brad Paisley
... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was… — Yngwie Malmsteen
... even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the… — Vince Gill
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I… — Dennis Lehane
What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each revelation… — Edward Gibbon
I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I… — Ralph Bakshi
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's… — Thomas More
In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the… — Thomas More

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