A Quotes
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“Any good relationship that I've had with an actor has always been so emotional and personal. If you don't have that then you're just lying.”
“Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.”
Source: Last Man in Tower
“Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.”
Source: Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World
“Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.”
“Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful?”
“Any good that comes our way doesn't come to us solely because we have done something good, but because God is good.”
“Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better.”
“Any good thing that happens to someone you love can only be good for you too.”
“Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit.”
“Any good world would allow for us to have free will, yes?" he continued. "Can we agree to this point? But once human beings have free will, they also have the ability to make choices - and commit evil. Thus, this very good thing, free will, allows the possibility of evil into our fine world.”
Source: The Diviners
“Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.”
“Any gospel which does not embrace both 'evangelism' and 'social action' is a counterfeit, offering either an escapist's dream, which leaves power structures of the world untouched, or a mere social reform which leaves the soaring spiritual dimension of reality out of consideration, and thereby dooms itself to compromise and failure.”
Source: Spiritual and Religious
“Any gospel which says only what you must do and never announces what Christ has done is no gospel at all.”
“Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.”
“Any government's condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent. And yet, what's happening is just the opposite. The world over, non-violent resistance movements are being crushed and broken. If we do not respect and honour them, by default we privilege those who turn to violent means.”
“Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.”
“Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.”
“Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.”
“Any government which fears freedom of speech and expression, should fear the internet more.”
“Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.”
“Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6
“Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.”
“Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.”
Source: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings
“Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.”
Source: The surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the love of words
“Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.”
“Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.”
“Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.”
“Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.”
“Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.”
“Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.”
“Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.”
“Any great gift of power or talent is a burden ... But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law.”
Source: The Dark Is Rising
“Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that.”
“Any great movie you watch has some element of darkness or loss or some suffering in it. That's what makes the fun parts fun.”
“Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.”
“Any great teacher is a great student.”
“Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.”
“Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them.”
“Any group is weaker than a man alone unless they are perfectly trained to work together.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“Any group of people that has been subordinate absorbs the idea of our own subordination, and that it is natural, and comes to think that the only way to survive is to identify with the powerful. And I think that is not surprising, and it is what happens to a lot of right-wing women. I mean they think they better do what the powerful tell them do otherwise they'll be in even more trouble.”
“Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.”
Source: Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates
“Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. In a free society, the "rights" of any group are derived from the rights of its members through their voluntary individual choice and contractual agreement, and are merely the application of these individual rights to a specific undertaking... A group, as such, has no rights.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution.”
“Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.”
“Any growth requires a temporary loss of security.”
“Any guilt about food, shame about the body, or judgment about health are considered stressors by the brain and are immediately transduced into their electrochemical equivalents in the body. You could eat the healthiest meal on the planet, but if you’re thinking toxic thoughts the digestion of your food goes down and your fat storage metabolism can go up. Likewise, you could be eating a nutritionally challenged meal, but if your head and heart are in the right place, the nutritive power of your food will be increased.”
“Any guilt borne by the casualties wrought by his hands had long ago been buried by the honor of the cause. That was enough for Olson. He’d been programmed to think about the cause. Nothing else mattered. He knew that by exterminating the bad guys, he was protecting the good guys.”
Source: Scavenger Hunt