A Quotes
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“Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance.”
Source: The God Delusion
“Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul.”
“Any environment, any single life is in a continuous state of change. This is just more obvious when you pay attention to earthworms. Their work may seem unspectacular at first. They don't chirp or sing, they don't gallop or soar, they don't hunt or make tools or write books. But they do something just as powerful: they consume, they transform, they change the earth.”
Source: The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
“Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.”
“Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.”
“Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.”
Source: If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature
“Any evaluation of who I am is held to the sparseness of who I am without understanding that who I am in union with Who God is renders me capable of being everything that I am not.”
“Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our likelihood of getting our need met! Even if we think it. And secondly, because it increases the likelihood of violence. That's why I'm suggesting any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Say the need! Learn a need-consciousness.”
“Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.”
“Any every denomination of Christians, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good subjects of the commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law: and no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law. Massachusetts Constitution.”
Source: Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
“Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.”
“Any excuse that grants me permission to somehow compromise what I am capable of achieving is the ‘worst of me’ undermining the ‘best of me’ in a manner that will never be capable of ‘excusing me.”
“Any excuse to get away from the computer screen is welcome.”
“Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world.”
“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character.”
“Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.”
“Any expectation is what pain is.”
“Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.”
“Any expensive ad represents the toil, attention, testing, wit, art, and skill of many people. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.”
“Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]”
“Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.”
“Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [...] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.”
“Any experience of reality is indescribable!”
“Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.”
“Any experience that occurs violently in some souls is found in all, though with different degrees of intensity.”
Source: Politics
“Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.”
Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors
“Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.”
“any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense”
“Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.”
“Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Any external support, if you want to call it support, let's use this world, is... how to say... it's going to be additional, but it's not the base to depend on more than the Syrian support.”
“Any extra free time you have, you are sleeping, or you're trying to sleep”
“Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
“Any eye is an evil eye That looks in on to a mood apart.”
Source: The poetry of Robert Frost
“Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.”
“Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.”
“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.”
“Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether.”
“Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.”
“Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.”
“Any failure to live up to someone else’s expectation of you is a disappointment from which they will recover. But failure to live up to your own is a desertion of your very soul.”
Source: You Are Not Stuck: How Soul-Guided Choices Transform Fear into Freedom
“Any failure we could suffer throughout our lives, will turn into little successes if we take the right path, keep walking.”
Source: Zori 2ª Parte
“any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn't the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known and used.”
“Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.”
“Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.”
Source: Contact
“Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.
Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth
of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications.”
Source: The Root of the Righteous
“Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.”