A Quotes
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“Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask - are we raising them for high income individuals that can afford it, and lowering them for lower income people who really need help. Those old categories don't work, and they're preventing us from solving them problems.”
“Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.”
Source: Grace Notes
“Any discussion of male codependency, even one rooted in early attachment dis-ruption, must address the pressures of the social-norm context for male devel-opment. These pressures are often referred to in the literature as “gender role strain.” Gender role strain in men has been identified as either the failure to fulfill male role expectations or the traumatic fulfillment of these expectations, and their negative consequences. One proposed cause of gender role strain is the early gender role socialization process which begins within the family context and is supported by a larger cultural socialization based on patriarchy.”
Source: Codependency & Men
“Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.”
Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye
“Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.”
Source: Ask and it is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires
“Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.”
“Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.”
“Any dish we can't resist we taste with our mouth in the food, not the food in our mouth.”
“Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.”
“Any divine communication from God to man is called revelation. Revelation comes in many different forms. All true revelation comes by the power of the Spirit of God. By this power, the Almighty speaks to our minds and hearts (D&C 8:2).”
“Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.”
“Any doctrine that makes the world your friend is not your friend.”
“Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.”
Source: Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc
“Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.”
“Any dog can bed down a lot of females. But only a real man can love one woman for a lifetime.”
Source: Doug and Carlie
“Any doorway that leads you to a deeper understanding of who you are is worthwhile.”
“Any dramatic series the producers want us to take seriously as a representationof contemporary reality cannot be taken seriously as a representation ofanything - except a show to be ignored by anyone capable of sitting uprightin a chair and chewing gum simultaneously.”
“Any dream can come true if we have the courage to pursue it with zeal and persistence.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories
“Any dream is a possibility.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Any dream is possible, if you have courage.”
“Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply too small.”
“Any dream that is all contemplation and no initiation is only a wish.”
“Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs.”
“Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.”
Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd
“Any Earth Alliance military personnel who, whether through affirmative acts or by inaction, assist these seditionists are guilty of treason and will be held accountable. To all present military personnel: you have five minutes to respond accordingly.”
She chuckled. “Bet more than one scuffle just broke out on board those ships.”
“Any second thoughts?”
Her head shook tersely. “We’re all traitors now.”
“It’s not traitorous to want to be free.”
Source: Apogee
“Any earthly production would have been cancelled at the slightest suggestion of rain, but this was William’s Stage—it was William’s call—and if the children danced and the congregation remained transfixed, the show would go on.”
Source: The Brandywine Prophet
“Any economic system that does not incentivize and cultivate growth, will leave the human species stuck at an infantile level of civilization development.”
Source: Business Essentials
“Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9”
“Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.”
Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation will get a bunch of people who may think they are creative, but they are functionally illiterate.”
“Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.”
“Any effect, constant, theorem or equation named after Professor X was first discovered by Professor Y , for some value of Y not equal to X.”
“Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!”
“any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.”
Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay
“Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.”
“Any effort to stop the left's plan for a societal transformation must begin with measures to restore universities to the institutions they once were -- to see to it that liberal arts faculties adhere to the same nonideological standards as the sciences and that faculties once again feature diverse political perspectives that reflect the diversity of society at large.”
Source: Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America
“Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.”
Source: The Structure of Appearance
“Any emotion lived intensely simply liberates you of that emotion, be it anger, fear or attachment to any object or person.”
“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Any empathic person who knows how valuable time is will think twice before wasting another person's time, because losing time is losing a part of your life.”
Source: Mirror
“Any employer is going to look at your social media before they hire you. Why aren't we doing that when we screen people coming into the United States?”
“Any employer that is informing their workers that they may develop ‘Summit Brain’ and directs their employees to use drugs to do their job needs to be shut down.”
“Any endeavour founded on trust will endure and outlive any circumstance”
“Any engineer can tell the voltage of a battery from taste, but only a humane engineer knows how to put each volt and amp to humanitarian use.”
Source: Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience
“Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.”
Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one.”
“Any ensemble - they didn't call it "the all-male Expendables," for example. But it's Hollywood's fault that people say that, because there have been so few movies that have allowed women to have these leading roles, so that's Hollywood's fault.”
“Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.”
“Any enterprise of your own is a great enterprise.”
“Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.”
Source: Pride: the Charley Pride story