Scheme Quotes
346 quotes by 314 authors
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There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard…
— Tony Abbott
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I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning…
— Jacques Rivette
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The DSA scheme has not been reviewed for 25 years
— David Willetts
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a…
— Alan Greenspan
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The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.
— Rachel Maddow
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Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in…
— Irving Layton
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The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate such sections of mankind as stand…
— Herbert Spencer
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Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge…
— David Deutsch
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No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
— Douglas Hofstadter
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Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back…
— James Connolly
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In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to…
— David Graeber
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I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area…
— T.E. Lawrence
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For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be…
— James Payn
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What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the…
— Anna Deavere Smith
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The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.
— Heather Donahue
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I am often asked if Network Marketing is a Pyramid Scheme. My reply is that corporations really are pyramid schemes. A corporation has only one…
— Donald Trump
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American Medical Association [AMA] was strongly opposed to any scheme for group practice and to health insurance ... because they are un-American.
— Morris Fishbein
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Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught…
— Lance Armstrong
Who Wrote These Scheme Quotes
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