William Bell Riley Quotes

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

William Bell Riley

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• In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

  

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• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  

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• I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

  

  Larry Flynt
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• I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

  

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• I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.

  

  Paige Turco
  • People
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• I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Good
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• I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Practice

• The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Game
  • Opportunity

• For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Time
  • Long
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• The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Change
  • Survival
  • Rules

• The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Happy
  • Kind
  • Sound

• I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Kids
  • Focus
  • Now

• The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Different
  • Ideas
  • Politics

• If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Man
  • Fight
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• Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Risk
  • Tiger

• I went into my own black-out period 1942-45 which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they’d get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn’t emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.

  

  Lee Krasner
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Black

• Wealth plays out in the political sphere in all kinds of ways, often personally. Can Hillary Clinton represent the interests of working people when she and her husband have taken so much money from Wall Street? Was Mitt Romney's private-equity business too ruthless with workers?

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Money
  • She

• Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Money
  • Done
  • Home

• Good Lord, I went in for a check up the other day and the doctor said 'You need to lay off eggs.' I go 'Is my cholesterol bad?' He said 'No, your farts are killing everybody in this room.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • World
  • Different
  • Science

• I have lots of different interests. Any of my friends will know I'm interested both in science and in art.

  

  Ann Makosinski
  • Different
  • Art
  • Friends

• When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

  

  George Carlin
  • Life

• The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.

  

  William Bell Riley
  • Science
  • Evolution
  • Fact