A Quotes
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“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
“Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.”
Source: Chimes at Midnight
“Almost all stress, tension, anxiety, and frustration, both in life and in work, comes from doing one thing while you believe and value something completely different.”
Source: Time Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
“Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality”
“Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music. Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.”
“Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.”
Source: History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards
“Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.”
“Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.”
Source: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War
“Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical kind, of such portions of the numerical or quantitative results of observation as remain outstanding and unaccounted for, after subducting and allowing for all that would result from the strict application of known principles.”
“Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.”
“Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.”
“Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.”
“Almost all the military personnel were wearing sunglasses. No Iraqis wear sunglasses. They really want to see your eyes. So immediately they can't trust the Americans.”
“Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.”
Source: Life and Writings
“Almost all the movies I've directed are adaptations. And I think what I found when I went to film school, where they try to push you to find your voice or your thing, is that I got a lot of things out of adaptations.”
“Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.”
Source: Essayes
“Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside.”
“Almost all the people who lived in Atlantis meditated and had powerful psychic skills.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.”
“Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.”
“Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.”
“Almost all the real journalists are gone. Even the successful are in danger of being squashed by mainstream platforms for reasons other than their commitment to a sustainable business model. Many real journalists self-publish on Substack or put out content, free of interference, on Locals, Rumble, or Telegram. These outlets hopefully will continue to promote freedom of speech and allow the mainstream to continue promoting innocuous travel images as well as cute animal memes, providing a kitty’s smirk isn’t deemed to be too subversive that it undermines the electorate’s faith in our government or our media. Don’t ask the mainstream companies what they think of independent platforms. They lie, a lot, and you’ll probably get the answer you suspect. Replace them. All of them.”
Source: This Side of Reality: How to survive this war and the next 15 to follow
“Almost all the Renaissance and Baroque paintings we studied in class were of baby Jesus, which is not very interesting, so when I saw Artemisia Gentileschi's paintings of biblical women killing all those horrible men, my heart trembled. She was such a bad ass.”
Source: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
“Almost all the shows I've been connected with have been extremely well cast. They're playing the show, not just doing the songs.”
“Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.”
“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. This only looks like love.”
Source: Invisible Monsters Remix
“Almost all the times advices from your loved ones are for your safety, not for your success.”
“Almost all the United Commonwealth presidents have been female. It has been argued that women are less aggressive, more maternal, and thus more focused on the well-being of the country's people. Less focused on politics or power.”
Source: The Testing 2: Independent Study
“Almost all the voices in history have been men, but on this one question of gender, men don't talk about it. This has nothing to do with women; it has to do with men.”
“Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than you're likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!”
“Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They've identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only found 22 that have been tested in animal cancer tests out of this thousand. And of those, 17 are carcinogens. There are ten milligrams of known carcinogens in a cup of coffee and thats more carcinogens than youre likely to get from pesticide residues for a year!”
“Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free.”
“Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.”
“Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.”
“Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.”
“Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.”
“Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.”
Source: Roads from Past to Future
“Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.”
“Almost all women have hearts full of pity.”
“Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.”
Source: Works
“Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.”
“Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.”
Source: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
“Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.”
“Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.”
“Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.”
Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
“Almost always, the more intelligent, clever, and original you are, the more bored you are by Proverbs. It tells you nothing you didn’t know before. It is a book of platitudes, of old, well-worn truisms. It is, simply, dull. Yes, that is how the most “advanced” minds see Proverbs. And our nation, our civilization, and our world are today threatened with destruction precisely because of the ideas of those “advanced” minds, because we have departed from the old platitudes. If there is anything our civilization needs in order to survive the threat of moral and spiritual and perhaps physical destruction, it is to return to these “safe”, “dull” platitudes. For they are true. They are a road map to life, and we are lost in the woods.”
Source: You Can Understand The Bible: A Practical And Illuminating Guide To Each Book In The Bible
“Almost always, things are exactly as they appear. People are continually looking at the painful or boring parts of life with the half-hidden expectation that there is more going on beneath the surface, some deeper meaning that will eventually be unveiled; we're waiting for the saving grace, the shocking reveal. But almost always things just are what they are, almost always there's no glittering one hidden under the dirt.”
Source: World of Trouble
“Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.”
“Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.”