A Quotes
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“A poor person robs the bank whereas a rich person buys the government.”
“A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.”
“A poor quality police force is symptomatic of a poor quality government.”
“A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.”
“A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.”
“A poor sage has greater wealth than a rich fool.”
“A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.”
Source: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
“A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.”
“A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.”
“A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.”
“A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.”
“A poor understanding of these issues—the need for randomization, the difference between correlation and causation, and the power of the compliance effect—has colored much of the research that has been conducted to date about the effectiveness of 12-step membership and attendance.”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“A poor village that takes care of its children is better than a rich city that abuses its youth.”
“A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.”
“A poor, who hates power, once become powerful, hates poor.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A poor wise man is he who seeks out the rich, but a nobler rich man he who seeks out wise men.”
Source: The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures
“A poor wise person is greater than a rich fool.”
“A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Life
“A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.”
“A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“A poorly designed ad can definitely save you money in the short term but it can also cause irreparable damage to your business in the long term.”
Source: The Art of Running a Successful Wedding Services Business: The Missing Puzzle Piece You’re Looking For
“A poorly made car, sofa, or meal can
be easily returned or discarded. A poorly educated child cannot; factory recalls are not an option in education. There will never be a day when the evening newscaster announces, “Scottsdale High School issued a product recall on the graduating class of 2012. If you currently employ a member of the class of ‘12, please return him or her to the district office for a class of ‘17 upgrade.”
Source: Success for Every Student: A Guide to Teaching and Learning
“A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.”
“A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.”
“A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.”
“A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.”
Source: The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
“A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of an ape; for the clown himself imitated the serious characters of the play.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.”
Source: The Ascent of Man
“A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.”
Source: All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography
“A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.”
“A popular feel for scientific endeavors should, if possible, be restored given the needs of the twenty-first century. This does not mean that every literature major should take a watered-down physics course or that a corporate lawyer should stay abreast of quantum mechanics. Rather, it means that an appreciation for the methods of science is a useful asset for a responsible citizenry. What science teaches us, very significantly, is the correlation between factual evidence and general theories, something well illustrated in Einstein's life.”
Source: Einstein: His Life and Universe
“A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.”
Source: Collected Works
“A popular idea does not infer a correct one, it just means a lot of people can get something wrong at the same time. Ever hear of witch trials?”
“A popular idea does not infer correct one, it just means a lot of people can get something wrong at the same time. Ever hear of witch trials?”
“A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.”
Source: The Countess of Pembrokes' Arcadia ... With Notes and Introductory Essay by Hain Friswell, Etc
“A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.”
Source: DUNE
“A popular misconception is that decision analysis is unemotional, dehumanizing, and obsessive because it uses numbers and arithmetic in order to guide important life decisions. Isn’t this turning over important human decisions “to a machine,” sometimes literally a computer — which now picks our quarterbacks, our chief executive officers, and even our lovers? Aren’t the “mathematicizers” of life, who admittedly have done well in the basic sciences, moving into a context where such uses of numbers are irrelevant and irreverent? Don’t we suffer enough from the tyranny of numbers when our opportunities in life are controlled by numerical scores on aptitude tests and numbers entered on rating forms by interviewers and supervisors? In short, isn’t the human spirit better expressed by intuitive choices than by analytic number crunching?
Our answer to all these concerns is an unqualified “no.” There is absolutely nothing in the von Neumann and Morgenstern theory — or in this book — that requires the adoption of “inhumanly” stable or easily accessed values. In fact, the whole idea of utility is that it provides a measure of what is truly personally important to individuals reaching decisions. As presented here, the aim of analyzing expected utility is to help us achieve what is really important to us. As James March (1978) points out, one goal in life may be to discover what our values are. That goal might require action that is playful, or even arbitrary. Does such action violate the dictates of either rationality or expected utility theory? No. Upon examination, an individual valuing such an approach will be found to have a utility associated with the existential experimentation that follows from it. All that the decision analyst does is help to make this value explicit so that the individual can understand it and incorporate it into action in a noncontradictory manner.”
Source: Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making
“A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable to grapple with its own dilemmas and therefore to marshal the popular will to change and improve itself.”
Source: The News: A User's Manual
“A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.”
Source: The Alderson story: my life as a political prisoner
“A popular song is one that makes us all think we can sing.”
“A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.”
“A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged
“A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.”
“A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.”
Source: Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy
“A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.”
“A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to manipulation and regimentation. The struggle for survival is, above all, an exercise that is hugely time-consuming, absorbing and debilitating. If you create these ''anti-conditions,'' your rule is guaranteed for a hundred years.”
“A porcupine has fur like a fence. That makes it a good neighbor unto itself.”
Source: Whenever you're here, I'm there for you
“A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.”
“A pornographic scene skilfully shot is no less than a melodious song.”
Source: The Pink Cadillac
“A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?”