Quotes with stable

  • A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
  • When you tour, it's so hard on the body. Being in one place is cool. It's a more stable environment.

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  • B. F. Skinner A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Ben Nelson A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • James Baldwin A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Margaret Thatcher A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • John Dewey Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.
    Experience and Nature (1925)
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Baba Kalyani In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Low and stable inflation in many countries is an important accomplishment that will continue to bring significant benefits.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ben Bernanke Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Kabbalah The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
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  • Carroll Quigley The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Bette Midler The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.
    From her album Mud will be Flung Tonight
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • John Steinbeck The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Bob Dylan There is nothing so stable as change.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • John Keats There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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