Ruthlessly Quotes
56 quotes by 53 authors
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The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a…
— Eugene Wigner
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With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine,…
— David A. Freedman
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Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their…
— Robert D. Hare
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These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit…
— Franklin P. Adams
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Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
— David Remnick
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Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of…
— Robert Paul Wolff
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One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.
— Arthur Koestler
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Scientists make mistakes. Accordingly, it is the job of the scientist to recognize our weakness, to examine the widest range of opinions, to be ruthlessly…
— Carl Sagan
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Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
— John Ortberg
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
— Dallas Willard
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What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty…
— Francis Galton
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Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize…
— Bruce Catton
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Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or…
— Robert Ardrey
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Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction.
— Katherine Mansfield
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My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that…
— Anton Chekhov
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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his…
— Bayard Taylor
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My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly…
— Burton Silverman
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Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
— Sigmund Freud
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I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
— Christopher Hitchens
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