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Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive. - Mary Whitehouse Quotes
Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didnt participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated. - Louis Stokes Quotes
The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, youre telling them that theyre less than somebody else. - Gwendolyn Brooks Quotes
It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were. - Peter Hammill Quotes
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. - Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally. - Friedrich Schleiermacher Quotes
Avoiding any reference to the pop would mean either being retrograde about whats \"permissible\" in serious art or else writing about some other world. - David Foster Wallace Quotes
Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. - Albert Schweitzer Quotes
The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations. - Carlos Salinas Quotes
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society. - Constance Baker Motley Quotes
After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written. - Joseph Butler Quotes
The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution. - Jose Ramos Horta Quotes
Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work. - Timothy Thomas Fortune Quotes
The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas. - Kevin Ayers Quotes
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament. - A P Herbert Quotes
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point. - Jean Paul Sartre Quotes
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. - Immanuel Kant Quotes
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific. - Talcott Parsons Quotes
Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography. - George Phillips Bond Quotes
Today the people from my State of Tennessee would listen to this debate, or even talk about a reference to God on our money or in the Halls of Congress or in our Pledge and say, please, let common sense and logic win the day and prevail versus legal mumbo jumbo. - Zach Wamp Quotes
Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lords day. - Caleb Cushing Quotes
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. - Erich Fromm Quotes
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects. - Nigel Dennis Quotes
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes
The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received. - Caleb Cushing Quotes
My point of reference is life, in everything that I do. - Howie Mandel Quotes
Newt changed the frame of reference of all of our candidates. Thats why we won so big in 1994. - Pete Du Pont Quotes
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature. - Malcolm Boyd Quotes
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