William Kingdon Clifford Quotes

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

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• In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

  

  Ed Weeks
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• I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.

  

  Ted Nugent
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• Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

  

  Val Kilmer
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  • Never
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• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
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  • Change
  • Blind

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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  • Care

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Embody

• Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
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• Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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  • Work
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• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Great
  • Know
  • Joy

• The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

  

  Jackie Robinson
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• If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

  

  Adam McKay
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• What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
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• I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.

  

  A. J. Liebling
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  • Bed

• I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Great
  • Done
  • Things

• I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Money
  • Pretty
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• I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

  

  Des Browne
  • Service

• Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Ryan MacDonald's glorious shards of prose are both lurid and blazing, and together they comprise an anthology of complex feelings-dream-like, vivid, and never, ever obvious.

  

  Chris Bachelder
  • Together
  • Feelings
  • Emotion

• The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • Men
  • Done
  • Character