Quotes with convenience

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  • Henry David Thoreau Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Murray Kempton It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
    Murray Kempton
    American journalist
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  • Bradley Denton Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store.
    Source: Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Rachel Carson The ''control of nature'' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • William James The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Martin Luther King The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
    Source: The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Ch. 2, p. 41
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Amy Vanderbilt We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
    Amy Vanderbilt
    American author, authority on etiquette (1908 - 1974)
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