Rather Quotes
10955 Rather quotes by 5999 unique authors
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The purpose of [a lawsuit] is to harass and discourage rather than to win. The law can be used very easily to harass, and enough…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that…
— Dion Fortune
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To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art'…
— M.C. Escher
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That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, “Mr. Stupid, why risk everything on one…
— Paul Tudor Jones
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As an investor my job is to figure out what will happen rather than what should happen.
— David Einhorn
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I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships…
— Roger Waters
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There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than…
— Maria Montessori
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An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities,…
— Maria Montessori
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Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor…
— Paulo Freire
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The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as…
— Paulo Freire
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I haven't blocked out the past. I wouldn't trade the person I am, or what I've done, or the people I've known, for anything. So…
— Ted Bundy
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Guilt? It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism -- and it's very unhealthy. It…
— Ted Bundy
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I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and…
— Yanni
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Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot…
— Rick Renzi
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No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience…
— James Berardinelli
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The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
— Christian Morgenstern
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I don't represent a group, a trend or a political party, but rather everyone.
— Amr Moussa
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The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face the ugliness of…
— Larry Crabb
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Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God…
— John Townsend
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It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a…
— Danny Elfman
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Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the…
— Ivan Illich
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I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison
— Theodore Kaczynski
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The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the…
— Harold Innis
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