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• If a situation is very, very turbulent, it has low validity, and there's no basis for intuition.

  Gary A. Klein

  Intuition, Lows, Situation

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...when their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, i.e. becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.

  Ezra Pound

  Thinking, Order, Law

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• I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Writing, Humility, Artist

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

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• In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Reality, May

  "Book VI: Liber O". Book by Aleister Crowley, hermetic.com. 1909.

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• I don't read reviews, and I don't include the press as part of my priorities or as part of the world that has any validity to what's really important to me.

  Demi Moore

  Priorities, Important, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was trained as a philosopher never to put philosophers and their ideas into historical contexts, since historical context has nothing to do with the validity of the philosopher's positions. I agree that assessing validity and contextualizing historically are two entirely distinct matters and not to be confused with one another. And yet that firm distinction doesn't lead me to endorse the usual way in which history of philosophy is presented.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Confused, Philosophy, Ideas

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.165, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

  Jon Meacham

  Biblical, Support, Slavery

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• The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.

  James Madison

  People, Giving, Constitution

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.205

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• We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, People, Humanity

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• I emphatically do not assert the general 'truth' of this philosophy of punctuational change. Any attempt to support the exclusive validity of such a grandiose notion would border on the nonsensical.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Philosophy, Support, Borders

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.185, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It can be frustrating and even frightening to observe the success which sometimes comes to outlaws and rogues who seem to refute notions of universal justice. Every time we see a villain enjoying the fruits of dishonorable acts we find ourselves doubting the value of character and the validity of the virtues we have been taught. Thus, it takes character to believe in character, but that belief is always rewarded, often by material success, but always by the esteem it earns from those who matter.

  Michael Josephson

  Believe, Character, Justice

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• Reaching and understanding is the process of bringing about an agreement on the presupposed basis of validity claims that are mutually recognized.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Agreement, Understanding, Reaching

  "On the Pragmatics of Communication". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1998.

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• I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Fashion, Australia

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.418, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel enough 'outerness'.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Hands, Attention

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.27, Criss Jami

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• That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work
  is its validity: that it should grip and that it should last.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  War, Lasts, Should

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• There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Fear, Taken, White

  "This I Believe" radio program, thisibelieve.org. 1951.

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• We have to be very clear about what we're doing to our music. We're giving away free albums. Now think about the psyche of the ordinary man, we don't respect anything that's free. Anything that we get easy has no validity.

  David Banner

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• I was inclined to judge the validity of a man's faith more by the depth of his roots in reality and brotherhood and love. So I felt more at home, shall we say with some Zoroastrians in the Far East, than I did with some Catholic missionaries.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Home, Reality, Men

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• If it's not as easy as we thought it was, for women to speak our truth, to even know our truth, then the missing ingredient is some sort of inner courage. To first of all, believe in the validity of who we are. And then to speak from it. It takes inner courage. As a leader in a large organization, I've often been the only woman working with powerful men, especially when I was younger.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Powerful, Believe, Men

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation.

  Carl Jung

  Knowledge, Numbers, Psychology

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 57, 1933.

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• My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

  Michael Shannon

  Dad, Sticks, Machines

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• Notice that all the traditional things philosophers do, looking for validity and soundness, promote civic friendship. That sounds pretty pie in the sky, yes, but I actually believe it.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Believe, Sky, Pie

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• That's my mathematician who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician.

  Albert Einstein

  Collaboration, Problem, Checks

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• To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  Race, Ethos, Levels

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• Our whole strength rests on the validity of [Joseph Smith's] vision. It either occurred or it did not occur. If it did not, then this work is a fraud. If it did, then it is the most important and wonderful work under the heavens.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Heaven, Vision, Important

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