Revised Quotes
48 quotes by 46 authors
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We need to revise our economic thinking to give full value to our natural resources. This revised economics will stabilize both the theory and the…
— Paul Hawken
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To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it…
— William Bell
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Daily, I examine myself in three areas. Have I done my best when doing things for others? Have I been trustworthy in my dealings with…
— Zengzi
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What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat.…
— Victor Hugo
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We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything.
— Jim Tressel
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The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers ended ten yearsago. For ten years Mickey had been saying, "The goldenage of Luncheon Vouchers is over." And that's…
— Zadie Smith
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the…
— Patricia Briggs
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The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off…
— Lee Child
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The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory…
— Anthony Kennedy
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Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.
— Ernst Mayr
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My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the…
— Melissa Gilbert
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It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics,…
— Lewis Thomas
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Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of…
— Aleister Crowley
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To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of…
— Richard Dawkins
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We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non…
— Maira Kalman
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Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel --…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believed in God. I told you of course…
— Karen Marie Moning
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