Bias of Priene Quotes

Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.

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• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Always
  • Literature

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Health
  • Government
  • Economy

• I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Mom
  • Down

• Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Belief
  • Illusion
  • Illusions

• You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.

  

  Imelda May
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Change

• I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Ambitious
  • Rather
  • Than

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Brave

• Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Fun

• The propagation problem is the problem of explaining by the structural properties of the swinging system what the character of the swings would be in case the system was started in some initial situation

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Character

• If only she could have held on to that day, held on to that moment forever, grasped it in her fists so it wouldn't escape. If only.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Forever

• I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Hope
  • Energy

• The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Country
  • Real
  • Control

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state. I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

  

  Avigdor Lieberman
  • Important
  • Democracy
  • Vision

• For Arizonans, there's a particular connection because it was the U.S.S. Arizona and so on December 7, we have a lot of commemorations on the day of the attack, and it's a big part of Arizona life.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Attack
  • Arizona
  • Commemoration

• 'You must save yourselves,' Rogol Domedonfors told them. 'You have ignored the ancient wisdom, you have been too indolent to learn, you have sought easy complacence from religion, rather than facing manfully to the world.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • World
  • Wisdom

• Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Wisdom

• Can we not interpret our adult wisdom into the language of boyhood?

  

  Baden Powell
  • Wisdom
  • Adults
  • Boyhood

• Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Reality
  • Understanding
  • Communication

• Cherish wisdom as a means of travelling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession.

  

  Bias of Priene
  • Wisdom
  • Possession
  • Travelling