"In my experience, people are usually fired for……" — Michael Shermer
"In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract."
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97 Quotes by Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer has 97 quotes on this site.
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The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of…
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People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
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Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest…
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice.…
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Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed…
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Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
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The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive…
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Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost…
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Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
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Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from…
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Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
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The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I…
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More Budgetary Quotes
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one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show…
— Dan Castellaneta
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The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to…
— Ron Paul
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In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess…
— Garry Kasparov
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As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to…
— Greg Walden
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I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never…
— Matt Gonzalez
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Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.
— James R. Schlesinger
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Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to…
— Tony Abbott
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The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our…
— Judd Gregg
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Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits:…
— John F. Kennedy
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Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come…
— Stephen Harper
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Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against…
— John Podhoretz
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The budgetary cost to the UK of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2010 will total more than £18…
— Joseph Stiglitz
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