Quotes with widely

  • Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
  • Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

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  • Albert Einstein During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • B. Carroll Reece As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Rebecca West Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • C. Wright Mills Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Anita Diamant I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Asa Gray In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Douglas Adams In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Barnett Newman It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • Bill Shuster It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Carl Sagan Many harebrained interpretations were also widely available, especially in weekly newspapers.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 13 (p. 216)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Carolyn Maloney Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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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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  • Barry Commoner The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Douglas Adams The story so far:
    In the beginning the Universe was created.
    This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • C. Wright Mills These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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