A Quotes
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“Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.”
“Any story worth telling is worth embellishing.”
“Any story worth telling relates to real life in some meaningful way. Scifi allows you to tell meaningful stories without seeming too preachy - it adds a metaphorical layer between the story and the real world. Scifi is dismissed as ungrounded fluff, but it's actually the opposite.”
“Any story you write about war, or film you make about war, is bound to be political whether you like it or not.”
“Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.”
“Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.”
Source: Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes
“Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove that the religious alternative is correct by default. When the sun was shown not to be the center of the universe, as Copernicus had proposed, the Earth was not moved back to that singular position in the cosmos. If Darwinian evolution is proved wrong, biologists will not develop a new theory based on the hypothesis that each species was created separately by God 6,000years ago.”
“Any strategy that involves crossing a valley accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.”
“Any strategy that preserves your existence and keeps you alive is a success; any strategy that jeopardizes your existence, or even leads you to death, is a foolish and colossal failure!”
“Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.”
Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without conditions.”
“Any strike will be as direct support to Al-Qaeda offshoot that's called Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. You're right about this. It's going to be direct support.”
“Any strikeout record worth having is in a Texas pitcher's pocket. I might come join them one day.”
“Any strong Muslim regime that threatens Israel, and we did. He said the Americans only want oil, and, of course, Iraq has the second-largest reserves. And he said that we will always replace God's law with manmade law. And finally that we intended to occupy and destroy Islamic sanctities. And I suspect that in our government, very few people knew that Iraq was the second-holiest place in Islam, after the Arabian Peninsula.”
“Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin with I never changed.”
“Any structure needs a strong foundation and strong foundation requires investment”
“Any student executes tens of elementary calculations daily. Over a lifetime, we
must solve more than ten thousand multiplication problems. And yet, our arithmetic memory is at best mediocre. It takes a well-trained young adult considerable time, often more than 1 second, to solve a multiplication such as 3 × 7. Error rates average 10 to 15 percent. On the most difficult problems, such as 8 × 7 or 7 × 9, failure occurs at least once in every four attempts, often following more than 2 seconds of intense reflection.”
Source: The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics
“Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its up-to-date perspectives and usefulness. Jeffers writes with a breadth of expertise on the Greco-Roman world that few New Testament specialists can match.”
“Any stupid ass can die- you have to work at living!”
“Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.”
“Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.”
“Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.”
Source: Stories, essays, and poems
“Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.”
“Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.”
“Any subject whose history ranges from pump handles on London's Broad Street, tide tables, naval gunfire and models of social segregation is bound to have rich parentage.
It took 'a village' to beget computational epidemiology: as a true multi-disciplinary subject, it evolved at the crossroads of mathematics, computation, statistics and medicine, with some contributions from systems biology, virology, microbiology, game theory, geography and perhaps even the social sciences.”
Source: Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python
“Any substantial tax reform would involve substantial redistributions of tax burdens and substantial changes in asset values, and you need some 'lubrication' (i.e., transition rules).”
“Any substantially advanced truth is indistinguishable from delusion.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Any success against a false target is a false victory.”
“Any success matters to me.”
“Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.”
“Any success that we have in life inevitably depends on some good luck, timings, the contributions of others, the teachers who helped us along the way, the whims of the public in need of something new. Our tendency is to forget all of this and imagine that any success stems from our superior self.”
Source: The Laws of Human Nature
“Any success you see began as a dream. That is why you must let nothing stop you from pursuing your dreams till they become real.”
Source: Exploring the Explosive Power of Big Dreams
“Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.”
“Any successful corporation, if they adopt the three, they're going to be not just wealthy but they're going to be balanced. A lot of corporations adopt exercise, discipline, no affection. But you must maintain the three, because it's part of what you need. You need physical stimulation, you need mental stimulation and of course you need emotional stimulation.”
“Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.”
“Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.”
“Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.”
“Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated.”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.”
Source: Up Through an Empty House of Stars
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
“Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.”
“Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.”
Source: Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
“Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.”
“Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a pluralistic society, and Mexico is hardly the alien civilization that some (really, just Samuel Huntington) would suggest.”
“Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.”
“Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.”
“Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.”
Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography
“Any supreme insight is a metaphor.”
“Any surplus is immoral.”
Source: Jenny Holzer