Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 761 till 780 of 1944.

  • Bob Ney In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein In recent years, Republicans have argued that Congress is a more responsible policymaker than the executive branch. But when it comes to regulation, Congress is often much worse, and for just one reason: Executive agencies almost always focus on both costs and benefits, and Congress usually doesn't.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • J. William Fulbright In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
    J. William Fulbright
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1905 - 1995)
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  • B. Carroll Reece In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Carter G. Woodson In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. It constrains men to recognize it.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • George Eliot In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oscar Wilde In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Billie Jean King In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron In the U.S., it would be so much better if the studios made many more smaller films for niche markets rather than a few tent pole films that swamp cinemas and Hoover up all the funding.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • C. L. R. James In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Bell Hooks Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Asa Gray Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Anita Desai India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Barry Sanders Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Graham Greene Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Henry Miller Instead of asking - ''How much damage will the work in question bring about?'' why not ask - ''How much good? How much joy?''
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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