Prevalent Quotes

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My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they were committed to… — Steve Carell
A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His… — Nehemiah Adams
Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and… — William Gurnall
There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and… — George S. Patton
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity… — Bertrand Russell
It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a… — Samuel Johnson
... [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by… — Hans Zinsser
Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket. Such questions include,… — Lynn Margulis
You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life... It's better to be positive and wrong… — Joyce Meyer
Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one… — Albert Schweitzer
If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the… — R. D. Laing
Much more prevalent than physical fear is the fear of criticism, rejection, and verbal opposition. — Derek A. Cuthbert
Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is… — Jimmy Carter
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come to see it… — Aaron Tveit
The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But… — J. G. Ballard
Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which the individual self… — Erich Fromm
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. — Catherine Helen Spence
Though Israel may often be deserving of criticism, what is missing is the comparable criticism of equal or greater violations by other countries and other… — Alan Dershowitz

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