Negligible Quotes
41 quotes by 36 authors
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Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has thoughtfully provided us with a…
— Lyman Spitzer
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The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding…
— Kevin Rudd
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The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders,…
— Henry Grady Weaver
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When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to…
— Robert Reich
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Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous…
— Oswald Spengler
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. . .…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What…
— Fred Hoyle
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Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well,…
— G. H. Hardy
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However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A wire bin takes…
— Ann Scott
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Why has marriage failed? In the first place, we raised it to unnatural standards. We tried to make it something permanent, something sacred, without knowing…
— Rajneesh
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We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The "seriousness" of a mathematical theorem lies, not in its practical consequences, which are usually negligible, but in the significance of the mathematical ideas which…
— G. H. Hardy
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The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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There is no agreement on the extent to which metabolism could develop independently of a genetic material. In my opinion, there is no basis in…
— Leslie Orgel
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Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.
— David Crystal
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Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a…
— Daniel Kahneman
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If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it…
— Carter G. Woodson
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The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.
— Carl Jung
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Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you…
— C.S. Lewis
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