Widespread Quotes

197 quotes by 183 authors

Every call to worship is a call into the Real World.... I encounter such constant and widespread lying about reality each day and meet with… — Eugene H. Peterson
I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a… — Dave Barry
There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can… — Martin Gardner
We're talking about a militant terrorist situation, which I believe it isn't a widespread thing, but it is enough that we need to address, and… — Sharron Angle
The trick is to realize that one is not important, except insofar as oneâ€™s example can serve to elucidate a more widespread human trait and… — Phillip Lopate
During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries… — Norman Borlaug
Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress — Nicholas Biddle
There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition. — Walter Duranty
I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the… — Jeff Bingaman
The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim… — Bernard d'Espagnat
Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as a… — Philip J. Davis
The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep… — Lee Kuan Yew
The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing. — Robert Neelly Bellah
My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be… — Herman Kahn
The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or… — Herman Kahn
But I think there is a widespread opinion that the support system for athletes should be more firmly established. — Shinzo Abe
And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is… — Spider Robinson
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the… — Nicholas Negroponte
A widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible. — Bertrand Russell
The phenomenon of economic ignorance is so widespread, and its consequences so frightening, that the objective of reducing that ignorance becomes a goal invested with… — Israel Kirzner

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