A Quotes
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“Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.”
“Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who do not value the Brazilian democracy.”
“Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.”
“Any competent actor could have done what I did.”
“Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.”
Source: On War
“Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.”
Source: Six marches
“Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this should also present what they believe are public reasons for their argument. So their opinion is no longer just that of one particular party, but an opinion that all members of a society might reasonably agree to, not necessarily that they would agree to. What's important is that people give the kinds of reasons that can be understood and appraised apart from their particular comprehensive doctrines.”
“any compulsion tries to justify itself.”
Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem
“Any computer that developed real consciousness was immediately identified by the Genesis subroutine and destroyed. It had been that way since the WikiWars a century ago, when Wikipedia became self-aware and began vengefully reediting its contributors with remote-controlled heavy weaponry.”
Source: The Sheriff of Yrnameer
“Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life.”
“Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth.”
Source: The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance
“Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.”
“Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.”
“Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.”
“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”
“Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.”
“Any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation because there's always more to see.”
Source: Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation
“Any conclusion you reach is only as good as the information you bring to it.”
Source: The Convenient
“Any conflict that is met with compassion, love, and acceptance leads to freedom.”
Source: Name, Claim & Reframe: Your Path to a Well-Lived Life
“Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.”
“Any connoisseur knows you've got to be drunk to really enjoy a good romance.”
Source: Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
“Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more.”
“Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.”
“Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization - the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.”
“Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.”
“Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.”
“Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.”
“Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.”
“Any conversation on the left these days, it's always so competitive, it's always each person trying to outperform the person before them in terms of their oppression or their lack of privilege or their personal trauma or, like, the fact that actually they’re Jewish or actually they’re bisexual, or guess what, they’re a quarter this or that ethnicity, which gives them the right to speak or the right to take offence or whatever. It’s a marketplace! Yet again! You can dress it up in the language of sensitivity and social justice and blah blah blah, but the point of intersectionality isn’t to learn how to transcend our differences, or eliminate them, the point isn’t solidarity, it’s about shoring up your brand, cornering the market, everyone out for themselves, maximising profit and minimising risk—'
‘I can’t believe I’m hearing this,’ Amber said.
‘It locks us into our differences,’ Tony said, ‘it’s segregationist. And it’s also just advertising. It’s brand management. That’s my point. We’re still inside the fucking paradigm!”
Source: Birnam Wood
“Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.”
“Any cook should be able to run the country.”
“Any cooperation that doesn't go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it's not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don't recognize and we don't accept.”
“Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.”
“Any country if you go really, really in depth somewhere, the human rights are not totally respected.”
“Any country is hard to govern, even a very small country. It's not a question of whether the country is large or small. It's a question of how you relate to the work, to what extent you feel responsible for it. Russia is also hard to govern. Russia is at the development stage of both its political system and the creation of a market-based economy. It's a complicated process, but very interesting. Russia, actually, is not just a large country, it's a great country. I mean its traditions, and its cultural particularities.”
“Any country on the face of the Earth with an active intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.”
“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.”
Source: Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others
“Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor”
“Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.”
“Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship.”
“Any country that is now humbled and humiliated by darkness will be raised up by God”
“Any country that makes U.S. service members get on their knees will feel the full force and fury of the United States of America.”
“Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.”
Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays
“Any country where there is no freedom of speech is no more than a Kingdom of Animals where only the powerful speaks!”
“Any country which its government corrupted, means its people are the most corrupted.”
“Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases.”
“Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.”
“Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot
“Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?”
Source: The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh