Fisher Ames Quotes
That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.
Fisher Ames
Quotes to Explore
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People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.
Zadie Smith
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The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated.
Benito Mussolini
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Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.
Laurel Clark
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I don't watch ESPN, don't listen to the radio. I just go home and deal with my family.
Kawhi Leonard
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The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.
Pliny the Elder
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My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.
Annalena McAfee
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Environments are invisible. Their groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns elude easy perception.
Marshall McLuhan
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Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt: qui vident, plane sciunt.
Plautus
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Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
Ang Lee
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
Jonathan Swift
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The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God, rather on the view that killing is always a grave matter. When we have to kill to live we may do so, but when we do not, we should live otherwise.
Andrew Linzey
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For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.
Studs Terkel
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If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.
Susan Vreeland
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Therefore,” he reasoned with himself, “it is love coming to claim me: I have been so long without love, hated at home, living in terror of my children’s lives: it is pure, tender, normal love.
Christina Stead
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If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.
Honore de Balzac
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Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
Thomas Carlyle
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Philanthropy can take the risks that others cannot or will not.
Judith Rodin
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That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.
Fisher Ames
