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You know what its like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they dont want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, theyll go right off and do it. - Mary Wesley Quotes
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for womens liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men. - Barbara Ehrenreich Quotes
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. - Kurt Huber Quotes
During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einsteins suggestion yielded no decisively new result. - Walther Bothe Quotes
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poets metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man. - William H Hunt Quotes
Any suggestion that Im writing about political operatives because Im interested in political operatives misses the entire point. - Bob Woodward Quotes
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation. - Bjorn Lomborg Quotes
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. - Edward Teller Quotes
Everything youve learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. Theres not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. - R Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires. - Chuck Jones Quotes
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion. - Friedrich August Von Hayek Quotes
When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if youre like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about. - Harry Stack Sullivan Quotes
Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we keep our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This solution, I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations. - David R Brower Quotes
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song! - John Burroughs Quotes
A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter. - Simon Newcomb Quotes
The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage. - James Payn Quotes
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they wont contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. Thats what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. - Orson Welles Quotes
The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure. - James Rainwater Quotes
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. - Johan Huizinga Quotes
My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc. - David Bohm Quotes
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - its been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments. - Stanley Schmidt Quotes
Roosevelt supported my suggestion that labor leaders who wanted to distinguish themselves should draw up such a code and let us take a look at it. - Frances Perkins Quotes
A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. - Christopher Lasch Quotes
The Democrats just dont have a foreign policy that theyre willing to defend, that theyre willing to use to take down the presidents. Were dealing with the power of suggestion here. - Chris Matthews Quotes
No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor. - Benjamin Harrison Quotes
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