Schemes Quotes

418 Schemes quotes by 363 unique authors

Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated… — Willard Van Orman Quine
Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme. — Diane Watson
He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had… — P.G. Wodehouse
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything. — George Santayana
The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the… — Ralph Nader
Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue;… — Edmund Burke
Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together? — William O. Douglas
The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started… — Esperanza Spalding
NDCC is an admirable job of amassing information to prove that communism is socialism and socialism (a plot to enslave the world) is not a… — Dan Smoot
I spend a lot of time thinking about what I do and how it fits into the scheme of things. I won't do something just… — Joel Hodgson
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social… — William Hurrell Mallock
Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views. — Mark Tooley
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and… — Nikola Tesla
When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top. — Donald Trump
But if you look at the big scheme of things, I have never failed, regardless of anything I have had to go through: from Dallas,… — Terrell Owens
I get more results for my money than in any other philanthropic scheme. It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance… — George Eastman
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several… — Charles Jencks
Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme. — Avi Rubin
To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an… — Daniel Guerin
Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme. — Harry Markopolos
Being an #‎ entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes #‎ strength of character to keep going. — Robert Kiyosaki
Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping… — Deepak Chopra
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time. — Andy Hargreaves
A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character… — J. G. Holland
We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn't… — Stanislav Grof

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