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• An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

  George Santayana

  Waiting, Realization, Prove It

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.26, Рипол Классик

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• The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon tradition or external authority or historical evidence, but upon the ascertainable facts of human experience. The craving for immediacy, which we have seen to be characteristic of all mysticism, now takes the form of a desire to establish the validity of the God-consciousness as a normal part of the healthy inner life.

  William Ralph Inge

  Religious, Men, Numbers

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• Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.

  Hans Rookmaaker

  Art, Christianity, Used

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• Laws which authorize and promote abortion and euthanasia are therefore radically opposed not only to the good of the individual but also to the common good; as such they are completely lacking in authentic juridical validity. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, is what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. Consequently, a civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Abortion, Facts

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• The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.

  Bernard Lown

  Strong, Acceptance, Science

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• The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it to vanish from being. Mathematical propositions, if true, are eternal verities.

  Cassius Jackson Keyser

  Independent, World, Matter

  Cassius Jackson Keyser (1929). “The pastures of wonder: the realm of mathematics and the realm of science”

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• The Sermon on the Mount does not provide humanity with a complete guide to personal, social and economic problems. It sets forth spiritual attitudes, moral principles of universal validity, such as " Love your enemies," "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them," and it leaves to Christians the task-the admittedly difficult task-of applying them in any given situation.

  Robert McCracken

  Love, Christian, Spiritual

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• You can judge the validity of any idea or concept by asking Is this true for me?

  Brian Tracy

  Ideas, Judging, Asking

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• Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by strong emotion, do we remember that it is our path? Can we feel the emotion and breathe it into our hearts for ourselves and everyone else? If we can remember to experiment like this even occasionally, we are training as a warrior. And when we can't practice when distracted but KNOW we can't, we are still training well. Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

  Pema Chodron

  Strong, Heart, Warrior

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition
  will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.

  Seamus Heaney

  Issues, Space, Political

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.425, Macmillan

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• The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Order, Ideas, Income

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2013). “Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics”, p.125, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to yourself. You are each trying to rediscover for yourselves, in your terms now - after centuries of myths and distortions - the validity of your own beings.

  Seth

  Philosophy, Giving, Trying

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• The treatment of the indeterminacy principle as absolute and final can then be criticized as constituting an arbitrary restriction on scientific theories, since it does not follow from the quantum theory as such, but rather from the assumption of the unlimited validity of certain of its features, an assumption that can in no way ever be subjected to experimental proof.

  David Bohm

  Science, Principles, Doe

  David Bohm (2004). “Causality and Chance in Modern Physics”, p.47, Routledge

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• Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

  Andy Warhol

  Attention, Recognition, Achieve

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• Tupac gave us validity. Tupac made the kid getting beat up every day realize that it was okay to be smart. Tupac made the knucklehead realize that it was okay to stay home and read a book. A fool at 40, a fool forever.

  Bevy Smith

  Smart, Book, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  Nathan Fillion

  Thinking, Hands, Trying

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• Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.

  D. M. Thomas

  Beautiful, Truth, Mean

  1981 The White Hotel, author's note.

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• The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity: The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the science of Psychohistory. The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3 generations. The population must be in the billions (±75 billions) for a statistical probability to have a psychohistorical validity.

  Isaac Asimov

  Population, Three, Generations

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• I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.)

  Stephen King

  Believe, Heart, People

  Stephen King (2016). “Four Past Midnight”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Now you see, Dr. Stadler, you're speaking as if this book were addressing to a thinking audience. If it were, one would have to be concerned with such matters as accuracy, validity, logic and the prestige of science. But it isn't. It's addressed to the public.

  Ayn Rand

  Book, Thinking, Drs

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.264, Hamilton Books

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• Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It’s ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Falling In Love, Taken, Weekend

  Chetan Bhagat's speech given at the orientation program for the new batch of MBA students, www.chetanbhagat.com. July 24, 2008.

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• Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Good Life, Hate, Real

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.445, OUP Oxford

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• A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Wise, Philosophical, Fate

  "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.

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• Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

  Dan Brown

  Acceptance, Ideas, Proof

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.183, Random House

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• Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Independent, Understanding, Bangs

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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