Namely Quotes
321 quotes by 269 authors
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether…
— Howard Zinn
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A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.
— Voltaire
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Before you give advice, that is to say advice which you have not been asked to give, it is well to put to yourself two…
— Unknown Author
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Surely anyone who has ever been elected to public office understands that one commodity above all others, namely the trust and confidence of the people,…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power.…
— Milton Friedman
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We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face in this area,…
— Vladimir Putin
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There's no point bleating about the future of pandas, polar bears and tigers when we're not addressing the one single factor that's putting more pressure…
— Unknown Author
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Al Gore has a hit movie called 'An Inconvenient Truth.' I have an inconvenient truth for him: you're still not the president. ... This past…
— Stephen Colbert
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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties.…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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There is the joy of one's own salvation. I thought, when I first tasted that, it was the most delicious joy I had ever known,…
— Dwight L. Moody
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If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds…
— Vaclav Havel
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In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that…
— Mike Nichols
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Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.
— Adolf Hitler
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I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get…
— Sam Sheppard
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Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
— Edward Abbey
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Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here…
— Thomas Paine
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It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate…
— Carl Jung
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a…
— Abraham Maslow
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Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the…
— C.S. Lewis
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