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Alan K. Simpson has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're…
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It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government…
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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…
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So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary…
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There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by…
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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the…
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I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote…
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Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.
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Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad…
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Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the…
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If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth
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People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants -…
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
— Max Beerbohm
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To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
— Nevil Shute
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The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.
— George Benson
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You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good…
— G. H. Hardy
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As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite…
— Niels Bohr
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with…
— George Eliot
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be…
— Walter Gropius
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What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
— Annie Dillard
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