Spurious Quotes
39 quotes by 37 authors
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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
— John le Carre
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Nonetheless, GAO's conclusion that employer sanctions had somehow caused employment discrimination was contradicted by GAO's own Chief of Methodology, who criticized the GAO report. ...here…
— Alan K. Simpson
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I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived…
— Jonathon Porritt
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The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having…
— Thom Yorke
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One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was…
— Gautama Buddha
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Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist…
— E. M. Forster
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Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.
— Gunnar Myrdal
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Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
— William Vickrey
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What does God think of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?
— Clement of Alexandria
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Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant…
— Aeschylus
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A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by…
— Theodor Adorno
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My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes…
— John Calvin
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The U.S. Bill of Rights is being steadily eroded, with two million telephone calls tapped, 30 million workers under electronic surveillance, and, says the author,…
— Gore Vidal
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... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with…
— Francis Maitland Balfour
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Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look…
— John Owen
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
— Abraham Kuyper
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Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Repentance is being sorry enough to quit your sin. You will never know the forgiving mercy of God while you are still wedded to your…
— Albert Martin
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