Selected Quotes - Page 9

• Hat head is a sad affliction wherein the chosen hat and the selected hairstyle are grossly incompatible. The unfortunate combination results in a condition that can be hidden only with the application of another hat.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Affliction, Hats, Results

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2006). “Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks”, p.103, Storey Publishing

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• Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down with disgust at "...the grace of the lord Jesus be with all. Amen." I'm sure there are lots of religious people who've read the Bible from start to finish and kept their faith, but in my self-selected sample, all the people I know who have done that are atheists.

  Penn Jillette

  Bible, Religious, Jesus

  Penn Jillette (2012). “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off.

  Allan Bloom

  Real, Men, Self

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.

  Roger Ebert

  Learning Something New, Small Numbers, Media

  Roger Ebert, David Bordwell (2017). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert: Second Edition”, p.432, University of Chicago Press

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• Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Numbers, Soul, Desire

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• [It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Two, Facts, Well Known

  "Social Networks: A Developing Paradigm" by Samuel Leinhardt, (p. 350), 1977.

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• Over the long term, despite significant drops from time to time, stocks (especially an intelligently selected stock portfolio) will be one of your best investment options. The trick is to GET to the long term. Think in terms of 5 years, 10 years and longer. Do your planning and asset allocation ahead of time. Choose a portion of your assets to invest in the stock market - and stick with it! Yes, the bad times will come, but over the truly long term, the good times will win out - and I hope the lessons from 2008 will help get you there to enjoy them.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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• I must confess my distaste for any proposal to use public funds for the support of selected, and thereby, privileged, industrialists, the more particularly if this is to be based on bureaucratic views of what is good and what is bad by way of industrial development, but I have been studying the report referred to with some interest.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Growing Up, Views, Support

  "Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council", (p. 116), October 9, 1970.

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• The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

  Daniel Levitin

  Creativity, Evolution, Possibility

  Daniel J. Levitin (2006). “This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession”, p.258, Penguin

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• The people were merely to acknowledge the authority of the Fuehrer, or, let us say, to declare themselves in agreement with the Fuehrer. If they gave the Fuehrer their confidence then it was their concern to exercise the other functions. Thus, not the individual persons were to be selected according to the will of the people, but solely the leadership itself.

  Hermann Goring

  Exercise, Agreement, People

  Statement on March 18, 1946 during Cross Examination. "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Volume 9, 1947.

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• For Jews, the Messiah has never come; for Christians, He has come but once; for modern man, He appears and disappears with increasing rapidity. The saviors of modern man, the "scientists" who promise salvation through the "discoveries" of ethology and sociology, psychology and psychiatry, and all the other bogus religions, issue forth periodically, as if selected by some Messiah-of-the-Month Club.

  Thomas Szasz

  Christian, Men, Issues

  "The Second Sin (Science and Scientism)". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1973.

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• What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place.

  George Crabbe

  Christian, Race, Faithful

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.98

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• I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

  Conor Oberst

  Depression, Memories, Drink

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• I am honored to be selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Over the past 16 days we've had some outstanding performances by Canadian athletes and it is truly overwhelming to be selected as the flag bearer amidst the most successful Canadian Olympic Winter Games team ever.

  Cindy Klassen

  Team, Athlete, Successful

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• We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has far influenced the development of civilization.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Religious, Hate, Taken

  Carter G. Woodson (2008). “Negro Makers of History”, p.20, Wildside Press LLC

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• Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Independent, Community

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• I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Powerful, Thinking, Eagles

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• More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else-or from themselves. Increased handouts to selected groups mean merely increased taxes, or increased deficits and increased inflation.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Mean, Government, People

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.228, Crown Business

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• There’s no way to really preserve a person when they’ve gone and that’s because whatever you write down it’s not the truth, it’s just a story. Stories are all we’re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles

  Steven Hall

  Clever, Writing, Together

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• A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Way, Salt

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• I visited Eduardo Miura’s ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home I had already selected my future emblem.

  Ferruccio Lamborghini

  Home, Bullfighting, Bulls

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• Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths in diameter! Yet we take a spider web for granted, as a nuisance in the house rather than as one of the wonders of the world. And think of the furore if Jane Goodall returned from Gombe stream with photographs of wild chimpanzees building their own houses, well roofed and insulated, of painstakingly selected stones neatly bonded and mortared! Yet caddis larvae, who do precisely that, command only passing interest.

  Richard Dawkins

  Marine, Thinking, Fishing

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• In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies on political and public apathy, Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

  Nomi Prins

  Self, Hands, Thought Provoking

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• Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Men, Would Be

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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