Pertinent Quotes
53 quotes by 48 authors
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I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They…
— Elayne Boosler
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I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell…
— Bill Bryson
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The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?
— Frank Chodorov
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A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow,…
— Charles Lamb
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I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains…
— Shirley Jackson
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[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature-a singularly…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given…
— Origen
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Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are statistically…
— Edmund Pellegrino
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It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
— Chester Barnard
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My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI think there's a…
— Guy Ritchie
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Anyone who has had an experience of mystery knows that there is a dimension of the universe that is not that which is available to…
— Joseph Campbell
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My diary entries during this period constantly refer to the importance of learning how to take criticism. If you shut yourself in your own little…
— Joao Magueijo
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As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.
— Chuck Jones
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The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and…
— Peter Drucker
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Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a…
— Jack Vance
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The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.
— Aldrich Ames
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When I started out in business, I spent a great deal of time researching every detail that might be pertinent to the deal I was…
— Donald Trump
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Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition.…
— Hyrum W. Smith
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The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in…
— Charles Edwards
Who Wrote These Pertinent Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 53 Pertinent Quotes, led by these top contributors: