Irregularity Quotes
26 quotes by 24 authors
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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore…
— Joseph Addison
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Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible…
— Thomas Jefferson
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One can get a proper insight into the practice of flying only by actual flying experiments. . . . The manner in which we have…
— Otto Lilienthal
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In the business world, allegations of accounting irregularities is tantamount to yelling fire in a crowded theater, except, today, in our Internet world, instead of…
— Jeffrey Skilling
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I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.
— Stephanie Tubbs Jones
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A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a…
— Thomas Sprat
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To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome"…
— Tom Peters
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I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of…
— Henry Walter Bates
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We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the…
— Octavio Paz
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In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only,…
— E. M. Forster
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Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not only for the…
— Samuel Johnson
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The creative person pays close attention to what appears discordant and contradictory... and is challenged by such irregularities.
— Frank X. Barron
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Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
— Aleister Crowley
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like…
— Joshua Foer
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The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now…
— William H. Gass
Who Wrote These Irregularity Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 26 Irregularity Quotes as follows: