Ernest Holmes Quotes
There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
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There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.
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I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
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I just feel like I have a lot to prove.
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Macho does not prove mucho.
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I've always been very determined. I don't get easily discouraged.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.
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It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.
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There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.
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I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.
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There's a lot of great Olympians, but for me, I try to prove myself as one of the best - and that's the key thing.
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The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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We have to create conditions where people feel safe to feel and to care. That goes against a lot of our programming about how to make something change in the world. Sometimes you can pressure people into changing, you can force them, but the powers-that-be have more force than we do. I don't think we're going to win in a contest of force. I think we need to induce a change of heart. The narrative of "us versus them" is ultimately part of the problem. Traditional activism, which is about overcoming the latest bad guy, isn't deep enough. It just brings us another version of the same.
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The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.
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There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
