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• Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexual freedom, there's still no word in the language that doesn't reek with pejorative connotation to describe a woman who has sex freely. Since language frames thought and sets its limits, this is not a trivial matter. For without a word that describes without condemning, it's hard to think about it neutrally as well. When we say the words 'promiscuous woman,' therefore, it's a statement about her character, not just her sexual behavior.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Sex, Women, Character

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• When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ignorance, Order, Ignorant

  "The Value of Science". Richard P. Feynman's public address at the National Academy of Sciences, Autumn 1955.

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• The precise statement of any problem is the most important step in its solution.

  Ed Bliss

  Important, Steps, Problem

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• The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started.

  John le Carre

  Believe, Opposites, Spy

  "John le Carré: 'I was a secret even to myself'". www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.

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• At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form "you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Opposites, Want, Form

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• I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.

  Eugene Fama

  Simple, Market Efficiency, Investing

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• No statement is more true and better applicable to Wall Street than the famous warning of Santayana: "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Past, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• If "man who supports his family, at all costs, even his own happiness" is Who You Are, then love your work, because it is facilitating your creation of a living statement of Self. If "woman who works at job she hates in order to meet responsibilities as she sees them" is Who You Are, then love, love, love your job, for it totally supports your Self image, your Self concept. Everyone can love everything the moment they understand what they are doing, and why. No one does anything he doesn't want to do.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Jobs

  "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1995.

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• Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Needs, Investing, May

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• Vegetables contain more nutriment than an equal amount of dead flesh. This will sound a surprising and incredible statement to many people, because they have been brought up to believe that they cannot exist unless they defile themselves with flesh, and this delusion is so widely spread that it is difficult to awaken the average man from it.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Believe, Men, Vegetarianism

  Charles Webster Leadbeater (1909). “Some Glimpses of Occultism: Ancient and Modern”

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• I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.
  [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him by his former post-doc, Nathan Myhrvold.]

  Stephen Hawking

  Sex, Book, Physics

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• We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.

  A.J. Ayer

  Reality, Limits, Significance

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• When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Way, Causes, Sincerity

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• That it does not matter what a man believes is a statement heard on every side today. ... What he believes tells him what the world is for. How can men who disagree about what the world is for agree about any of the minutiae of daily conduct? The statement really means that it does not matter what a man believes so long as he does not take his beliefs seriously.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Believe, Mean, Men

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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• Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword "scientific objectivity" and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Doors, Objectivity, Bears

  Richard M. Weaver, Ted J. Smith (2000). “In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

  George C. Homans

  Running, Long, People

  1974 Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms (rev edn).

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• Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has come out with the clear statement that we have wholly abandoned ourselves to the mercy of technological progress. The roles are now reversed: humanity becomes, for technology, a means, an instrument for achieving a goal unknown and unknowable.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Mean, Technology, Goal

  "His Master's Voice". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel, 1983.

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• But it does take the determination that you're going to put your thoughts upon something that does feel good. And so, here we're going to make a very bold statement: any disease could be healed in a matter of days, any disease, if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate - and the healing time is about how much mix-up there is in all of that.

  Esther Hicks

  Determination, Healing, Feel Good

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• I want to be the best that I can be. I want to do and have and live in a way that is in harmony with my idea of the greatest goodness. I want to harmonize physically here in this body with that which I believe to be the best, or the good way, of life. If you will make those statements, and then do not take action unless you feel good, you will always be moving upon the path in harmony with your idea of that which is good.

  Esther Hicks

  Believe, Moving, Ideas

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

  Katharine Tynan

  People, Tricks, Wince

  Katharine Tynan (1913). “Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences”

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• All creations are one with the universe. Look at the world around you. Can you effectively separate yourself from everything else? After seriously pondering this, most of us rapidly conclude that we cannot. To even make the statement that I exist as a unique entity requires comparison with something else. (If you exist as a distinct being, your distinctiveness is in comparison to other creations. No other creations, no individual you.)

  H. E Davey

  Unique, Meditation, Looks

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• The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Facts, Christ

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.

  Merlin Mann

  Attention, Missions, Mission Statement

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• Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups.

  Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

  Practice, Class, White

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• There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his
  essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Book, Different

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