Valid Quotes
322 quotes by 295 authors
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If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane…
— Dennis Lehane
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I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Taking away a person's control of her own life - meaning her bank account - is one of the greatest infringements a democracy can impose,…
— Steig Larsson
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There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Judge no one until you know their circumstances. No matter how awful they seemed, sometimes there was a valid reason for their behaviour. Granted, some…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.
— Cassandra Clare
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What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial…
— Leo Tolstoy
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It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling…
— Carl Sagan
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... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating…
— Paulo Freire
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The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the…
— Francis Fukuyama
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My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root…
— Stephen Lang
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There have been reports of many child marriages taking place in the Malabar region in Kerala, especially among the Muslim community. However, under Muslim Personal…
— Girija Vyas
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I did business the same way President Lee did, and from what I read in the papers, the same way President Ma has done. But…
— Chen Shui-bian
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The Left can play the race card incessantly without consequence or punishment, but woe to anyone else who even breathes valid opposition to their policies:…
— Monica Crowley
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The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims,…
— Richard Dawkins
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Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, which invented laws.
— Kevin Bleyer
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When considering a career move, consider the most important assumptions that have to prove true and how you can swiftly and inexpensively test if they…
— Clayton Christensen
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
— B.F. Skinner
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Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.
— Kathryn Lasky
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