Kathleen Hall Jamieson Quotes
The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.
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Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
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I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
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I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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It's like a pylon.
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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Are the last days near, perhaps? I have forgotten your lessons, prattlers and false prophets, but you haven't forgotten me. As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future - a terrible festival of dead leaves.
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I love playing the bad girl.
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My mom is really skinny, too. I got it from her. I've never done yoga before.
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Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.
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I bring a poofy gray down jacket with me wherever I go. It's meant for winter, but I use it most in the summer, when everyone cranks up the air-conditioning.
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I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children.
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It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.
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I think of Paul Feig as the Scorsese of comedy. He's the best at what he does. I think people just trust everything that he's got to say.
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For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.
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The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.
