Quotes with also-ran

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  • Barney Frank Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Remy de Gourmont Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Carmen Busquets Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Albert Claude Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Plato Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Winston Churchill It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Amartya Sen It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Archibald Alexander It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Haydon It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also His infinite justice.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Annie Dillard It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Aristotle It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Agnes E. Meyer It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.
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  • Molière It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Selma James It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today - to women.
    Selma James
     
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  • George F. Will It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, ''No wise man ever wished to be younger.''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • René Daumal It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Aldous Huxley It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Caspar Weinberger It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
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