Undue Quotes
64 quotes by 62 authors
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We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work,…
— Julian Assange
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe...
— Bertrand Russell
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Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.
— Thorstein Veblen
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are…
— A. V. Dicey
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The available supply of gold and silver being wholly inadequate to permit the issuance of coins of intrinsic value or paper currency convertible into coin…
— Abraham Lincoln
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One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions…
— James Madison
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Some parents place undue priority on temporal and material possessions. Some are far less diligent in their efforts to immerse their children in the gospel…
— Quentin L. Cook
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I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the…
— John F. Kennedy
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In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and…
— Basil King
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There are no demands - undue demands... There are many questions we get? why China? why now and the answer is why not?... There is…
— Jakaya Kikwete
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A very common symptom in maniacal conditions is erotic excitement. This varies from mere coquetry, a somewhat extended application of the command "love one another",…
— Daniel Hack Tuke
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One of the most devastating enemies of the family is radical sex education in the public school. It is more explicit than necessary for the…
— Beverly LaHaye
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O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is…
— Isocrates
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I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.
— Daniel Schorr
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I can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will not, so long…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly.…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness…
— Albert Einstein
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