Quotes with supports

  • The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

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  • Ben Shahn An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Richard Burton False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • Bjork Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Kenneth Branagh Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
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  • Austan Goolsbee I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Camille Paglia Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Demick One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Bernice Weissbourd Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
    Bernice Weissbourd
    American psychologist
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  • Samuel Johnson Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ben Goldacre Teaching needs an ecosystem that supports evidence-based practice. It will need better systems to disseminate the results of research more widely, but also a better understanding of research, so that teachers can be critical consumers of evidence.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Anita Roddick The Body Shop Foundation is run by our staff and supports social activism and environmental activism. We don't tend to support big agencies.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Abraham Robinson The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
    Abraham Robinson
    Polish mathematician (1918 - 1974)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ronald Segal The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of its crucial causes and consequences - as though a bridge could be made to change part of its function by blowing up part of its supports and part of its exit.
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  • Albert Camus The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Walter Lippmann The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bob Geldof There is not a single extant study that supports all the arguments against men being with their children. It's absolute bollocks.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Bell Hooks These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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