Experiments Quotes - Page 31

• Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

  George Santayana

  Art, Philosophy, Thoughtful

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• Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic freedom is the world's mightiest engine for abundance and social justice... Developing countries need to be encouraged to experiment with a growing variety of arrangements for profit sharing and expanded capital ownership.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Wisdom, Justice

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the American experiment in individual liberty, free enterprise and republican self-government could succeed only if power were widely distributed. And since in any society social and political power flow from economic power, they saw that wealth and property would have to be widely distributed among the people of the country. The truth of this insight is immediately apparent.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Wisdom, Father

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• Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Agency, Hearing, Firsts

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• The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Country, New York, Book

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• When reputable scientists correct flaws in an experiment that produced fantastic results, then fail to get those results when they repeat the test with flaws corrected, they withdraw their original claims. They do not defend them by arguing irrelevantly that the failed replication was successful in some other way, or by making intemperate attacks on whomever dares to criticize their competence.

  Martin Gardner

  Successful, Atheism, Tests

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• But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Believe, Thinking, Atheism

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2003). “His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers”, p.190, Rowman Altamira

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• Perhaps the most important thing I can tell you about equipment is to experiment and keep an open mind.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Mind, Important

  Gary Player, Desmond Tolhurst (1988). “Golf Begins at 50: Playing the Lifetime Game Better Than Ever”

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• I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment in self-government every day by spotlighting cockroaches who violate their oath to the US constitution and wipe their ass with the US Constitution.

  Ted Nugent

  Jobs, Government, Self

  "More Than 10 Questions with Ted Nugent. The Man, His Views, His Music & The New Album ShutUp & Jam". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.

  Fanny Kemble

  Morning, Cutting, Exercise

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.107

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• We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

  Dan Pallotta

  Powerful, Curves, Fundraising

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• Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

  Mark Twain

  Doe, Body, States

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.342, Courier Corporation

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• How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Embodiment, Susceptible

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• When a democracy reaches a point where the politicians cannot say no to the people, and both parties are competing for votes by promising even more spending or even lower taxes, or both, the experiment is about over.

  Pat Buchanan

  Party, People, Democracy

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• I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.

  Clemence Poesy

  Long, Really Cool, Periods

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• Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

  Monica Raymund

  Growing Up, School, Hair

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• Creative people like to think in unconventional ways, dislike rules, are easily bored, are independent, like to experiment, and enjoy being their own bosses. Basically the same traits found in most criminals and sociopaths

  Duncan Long

  Independent, Thinking, People

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• In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Air, Law, Common Sense

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.39

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• A little madness in the Spring
  Is wholesome even for the King,
  But God be with the Clown,
  Who ponders this tremendous scene--
  This whole experiment in green,
  As if it were his own!

  Emily Dickinson

  Nature, Kings, Spring

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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• Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.

  Emily Dickinson

  Adventure, Stimulus

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.507, Harvard University Press

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• Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Mother, Art, War

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1885). “Poets of America”

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• Suggestion is generally better than Definition. There is a seeming dogmatism about Definition that is often repellent, while Suggestion, on the contrary, disarms suspicion and summons to co-operation and experiment. Definition provokes discussion. Suggestion provokes to love and good works. Defining is limiting. Suggestion is enlarging. Defining calls a halt; Suggestion calls for an advance. Defining involves the peril of contentment: "I am here, I rest." "Thus far," says Definition, and draws a map. "Westward," cries Suggestion, and builds a boat.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Contentment, Definitions, Defining

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• America may not be the best nation on earth, but it has conceived loftier ideals and dreamed higher dreams than any other nation. America is a heterogeneous nation of many different people of different races, religions, and creeds. Should this experiment go forth and prosper, we will have offered humans a new way to look at life; should it fail, we will simply go the way of all failed civilizations.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Dream, Race, Civilization

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fall, Tyrants, Beard

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• every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Stories, Short Story, Asks

  Elizabeth Bowen (1959). “Stories”

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