Quotes with valid

  • Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
  • We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
  • If merely ''feeling good'' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Susan Sontag Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Benjamin Tucker I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Bill Plympton I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Gaston Bachelard Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • William James If merely ''feeling good'' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo Immunities that are valid as against the federal government by force of the specific pledges of particular amendments have been found to be implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, and thus, through the Fourteenth Amendment, become valid as against the states.
    Palko v. Connecticut
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bill Gates In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
    PBS interview with David Frost (November 1995)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Adam Savage In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Archibald Alexander It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Uta Hagen More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
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  • Alan Watts No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Alan Watts No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Bill Maris People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Peace Pilgrim The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Andrew Wiles There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Barnett Newman We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. That is why we profess spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Antonin Artaud Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • B. F. Skinner You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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