William Winwood Reade Quotes
All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are conjectures which have been given out as facts, handed down with many adornments by tradition, and accepted by posterity as "revealed religion". They are theories more or less rational which uncivilised men have devised in order to explain the facts of life, and which civilised men believe that they believe.William Winwood Reade
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
Kapil Sibal -
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Malcolm Forbes -
I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
Barbara Deming -
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
J. Anthony Lukas -
The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
Natasha Richardson
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
Randall Munroe -
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung -
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
Langston Hughes -
AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.
Jack Dangermond -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
Larry Hogan -
I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
Hannah Kent -
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Samuel Alexander -
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
Xenophanes -
It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
Calvin Johnson -
The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.
Dambisa Moyo
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My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
Philip Levine -
I worked really hard, and I surpassed myself... I didn't have, visually, what it took. I was not pretty, I had teeth problems, and I was very skinny. I didn't fit the mold.
Celine Dion -
It takes me ages to write stuff.
Chris Lilley -
In financial services, the front end of the world operates at super-high speeds: comparative advantages are measured in fractions of nanoseconds. And yet back end processes - the amount of time you have to wait when you sell a stock before cash hits your account - can take days.
Blythe Masters -
I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.
Donald Miller -
All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are conjectures which have been given out as facts, handed down with many adornments by tradition, and accepted by posterity as "revealed religion". They are theories more or less rational which uncivilised men have devised in order to explain the facts of life, and which civilised men believe that they believe.
William Winwood Reade