Statements Quotes - Page 36

• Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people worried about the recent developments here. Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail. And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.

  Andrei Lankov

  Exercise, Two, Korea

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• We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we may have... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.

  Stephen Schneider

  Libertarian Party, Scary, Doubt

  "Apocalypse Abuse and 'Climate Doomism'" by Ronald Bailey, reason.com. July 13, 2017.

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• The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.

  James Randi

  Men, Data, Religion

  "Another New Fan". Swift, archive.randi.org. September 02, 2005.

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• I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man or by the son of a praying father or a praying mother. I have made the statement before the chambers of commerce of all the largest cities of the country and have asked them to bring forward a case that is an exception to this rule. Thus far, I have not heard of a single one.

  Roger Babson

  Single, Christian, Mother

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• We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

  Jane Addams

  Class, People, Democracy

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• In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

  Tom Harrell

  Music, Powerful, Jazz

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• There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Conversations With God, Reason

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.48, Penguin

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• Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the nature of the universe from the statements and philosophies contained in religious writings.... Had any of these efforts worked, science and religion today might be one and the same. But they are not.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Philosophy, Writing

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.183, Prometheus Books

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• At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Thinking, May

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.165, A&C Black

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• One would have to say "in the end everything is a gag, etc" because everything is infinitely more than just a gag. The same applies to other "is"-statements such as "Laughter is an instant vacation"

  Alfred Korzybski

  Laughter, Vacation, Etc

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• Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Evolution, Creation, Claims

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• Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not.

  Darren Criss

  Fashion, Ifs, High Fashion

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• I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world.

  Sarah Burton

  Fashion, Thinking, Clothes

  Interview with Sarah Jessica Parker, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2012.

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• We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true".

  Richard P. Feynman

  Humility, Curiosity, Degrees

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• The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached. ... An apology for America's values is never the right course. ... The statement that came from the administration was - was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a - a severe miscalculation.

  Mitt Romney

  Stupid, Apology, Thinking

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• A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

  Deepak Chopra

  Attitude, Perception, Experience

  Deepak Chopra (1990). “Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/body Medicine”, Bantam

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• With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.]

  Harold Wilson

  Struggle, Science, Survival

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• The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after the meeting.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Giving, Vision, One Day

  "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", www.cnn.com. April 13, 2003.

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• All statements about the hydrides of boron earlier than 1912, when Stock began to work upon them, are untrue.

  Alfred Stock

  Hard Work, Untrue

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• The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.

  Karl Barth

  Atheist, Laughing, Heaven

  Karl Barth (1981). “Letters, 1961-1968”

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• Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.

  Carl Sagan

  Suicide, Atheist, Men

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• There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.

  Robert Creeley

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Intimate

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• Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

  Jacques Ellul

  Prayer, Moments, Form

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• Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

  Will Durant

  Funny, Hopeful, Aviation

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2011). “The Age of Louis XIV: The Story of Civilization”, p.563, Simon and Schuster

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