Quotes with often-uncontroversial

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean Rostand When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Angela Davis When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Cass Sunstein When government programs fail, it is often because public officials are clueless about how human beings think and act.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Charles de Gaulle When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • John Donne When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bo Burnham When I see someone filming me, I don't usually think, 'No, man, don't put this up online!' I'd think, 'Hey man, you don't get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!' I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Calvin Harris When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein When it imposes expensive regulatory mandates on the private sector, Congress often acts on the basis of interest-group pressures, anecdotes, and the emotions of the moment. The executive branch is hardly perfect, but it is far less likely to do that.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Alexander Graham Bell When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Jane Austen When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Sir William Osler When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • John Maynard Keynes When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
    The Economic Consequences of the Peace
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Cameron Sinclair When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre When you prescribe a new drug, often you are prescribing something that has only been tested in a few thousand people for a very short period of time, perhaps only six months, and that's not long enough to know whether there are any medium- or long-term side effects.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Brad Feld While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Thomas Jefferson While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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