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“A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a long enough time we have believed in nothing but the values arising in a mechanized, commercialized, urbanized way of life: it would be as well for us to face the permanent conditions upon which God allows us to live upon this planet.”

Way Wells Long Enough Would Be Faces Values Attitude Conditions Planets Consequence Environmental Inevitable Permanent Doom Enough Time Wrong Attitude

Author:T. S. Eliot

“It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.”

Ifs Humans Self Would Be Consciousness Attitude Growing Tradition Relation Assuming Critical Foolish Despise Human Relations Self Consciousness Change For The Better

Book:Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

“[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed atheoretical particularism of their anthropological colleagues and argue that all would be well if only the students of humanity regarded their subject as yet another animal and therefore yielded explanatory control to evolutionary biologists.”

Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

“It would be foolish to assert that there is no power above mine. Only the attitude that I take toward it will be quite another than that of the religious age: I shall be the enemy of every higher power, while religion teaches us to make it our friend and be humble toward it.”

Would Be Age Religious Attitude Enemy Teach Mines Higher Humble Foolish Be Humble Higher Power

Book:Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

“We cannot always judge man for only one part of his attitude. If we did so, we would be like the Pharisees in whose eyes Jesus was seen as bad, because He did not respect their rules about the Sabbath. They closed their eyes entirely to what would have lovable in Jesus, even in their sight.”

Ifs Men Would Be Eye Jesus Attitude Judging Sight Sabbath Lovable Pharisees

Book:Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition

“I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.”

Source: How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

“The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.”

World Way Wells Stills Whole Would Be Attitude Behavior Islam Tolerance Whole World Tendencies Afghanistan Profitable Extremist Taliban Insisting

Author:Ahmad Shah Massoud

“The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels at which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell.”

“I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought--those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping that by loving kindness to make them Christian again--and those who would adopt a much tougher attitude. Most decidedly I belong to the latter school, for though I am not blood-thirsty, I want the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost the war.”

Thinking Knows Want Two War Would Be School Christian Lost Attitude Kindness Blood Victory England Regard Surrender Latter Thirsty Loving Kindness

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret.”

Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence

“It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .”

Would Be Ability Attitude Fit Skills Patterns Masculine Pretense Pretension Skills And Abilities

Author:Arianna Huffington

“The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his attitude towards the absurd consequences of the theories which he accepts, is indeterminate in many ways, ambiguous, and never fully separated from the historical background . This material is always contaminated by principles which he does not know and which, if known, would be extremely hard to test.”

Source: Against Method

“Some ... sexist evil probably predates religion and can be ascribed to our biology, but there is no question that religion promulgates and renders sacrosanct attitudes toward women that would be unseemly in a brachiating ape.”

Would Be Evil Attitude Atheism Positive Atheism Biology Apes Sexist

Author:Sam Harris

“Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's a question that I certainly have myself. What would I be able to do in certain situations? He came out, obviously, looking like a true hero, but he didn't go in looking like that. He was not your typical image of somebody that you would think would be the tough guy who was able to endure. His lighthearted attitude, this sort of dorkiness, and naivete; it ended up being the finest tool for his survival.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Would Be Able Guy Certain Attitude Situation Hero Survival Tough Tools Endure Typical Finest Tested Tough Guy Naivete True Hero Amazing Man

Author:Christian Bale

“At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Helping Would Be Lasts Half Attitude Leaving Buddhist Always Thinking Good Buddhist

Author:Anne Carson

“My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them." I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.”

Knows Men Would Be Christian Justice Attitude He Man Judging Charity Fruit Atheist Proportion Orthodox Relevant Agnostic

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“It's really fascinating. I've never spent time in a place where they lost the wars, so it was interesting and I didn't know much about the history of the country. I didn't know they were under communist rule until the nineties. It's this whole attitude of being defeated, and frowning on optimism and American way of thinking. If we were laughing, Hungarian kids would be like "You're so American."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way War Country Whole Would Be Kids Lost Interesting Attitude Laughing Like You Optimism Fascinating Communist Defeated Way Of Thinking Frowning Hungarians

Author:Evan Jones

“I was really fascinated by the idea of how cunning and calculating Headless Horseman would be, and how much personality you can actually get from somebody when they're not expressing. They can do a lot of attitude, just within their body movements.”

Ideas Body Would Be Can Do Attitude Movement Personality Fascinated Cunning Calculating Horsemen Headless Body Movement

Author:Roberto Orci

“[on River Phoenix] I would love to see what kind of choices he would be making now if he was still around, some of the characters that he would have played. I mean, to me he was like a rock star, you know, he had it all: he had the looks, he had a great name, he had an attitude, an energy, an excitement about him. He was instinctively like a, he was a rebel, you know? He was kind of Bob Dylan to me, at times, and he had a lot to say. And I've never seen too many interviews by him, but the ones that I saw were pretty electric, pretty... he was switched on, definitely.”

Ifs Knows Looks Kind Mean Stills Character Would Be Choices Names Energy Stars Attitude Saws Rocks Rivers Excitement Interviews Rebel Bob Electric Dylan Rock Star Phoenix

Author:Jim Sturgess

“Success is always an easier motivator, because you want more of it. But I've also been motivated by failure. Had I medaled in London, I don't think I would be one of the few that have gone to a Summer and Winter. I would have been content with that medal. Instead, I used that failure to go to the Winter Olympics. I always tell people that failure can be one of your biggest motivators if you just have an attitude adjustment about it.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Has Beens Would Be Used Attitude Gone Easier Summer Winter London Motivated Olympics Medal Adjustment Summer And Winter Attitude Adjustment Winter Olympics

Author:Lolo Jones

“My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.”

Ifs Feelings Would Be Attitude Republican Climate Species Climate Change

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I want before God that everything, every thought, attitude, action, motive, desire in my heart be pleasing to Him. I ask Him, 'Keep the spotlight of your Spirit on me so there would be nothing impure or unholy in my life.' That's been my prayer for 50 years.”

Want Years Heart Would Be Action Spirit Desire Asks Prayer Attitude My Heart Motive Spotlight

Author:Bill Bright

“When you finish reading the book [Today Matters], take the daily dozen and list them in order of how well you do them. For example, the one that I would put at the highest for me is attitude or relationships because I'm really strong at both of those. At the bottom would be health. What I tell people is, "Take one month and work on one of the daily dozen for a whole year." And so it's really a one-year personal growth plan.”

People Years Wells Book Matter Whole Would Be Today Order Reading Strong Growth Attitude Plans Example Months Highest Personal Growth Bottom Lists Dozen Whole Year

Author:John C. Maxwell

“There's no reason - not yet, anyway - to believe [Bob] Dylan himself endorses such an attitude; or that he would think of himself as a more profound and worthy recipient than, for instance, any of the brilliant Motown or girl-group lyricists who are more likely to be awarded a Nobel prize for chemistry than for literature. Whether there is more truth and humanity in his best lyrics than in Abba's, or less, is unquantifiable, and it would be meretricious to attempt such a calculation in contesting an argument he has been dragged into.”

“There is much romanticism about Formula One of the past. Today it has to be more of a family sport, not less. It is a fixture in the Sunday afternoon TV programmes, and probably flamboyance - those white silk suits and devil-may-care attitudes - would be outworn attributes today.”

May Would Be Care Today Past Sports White Attitude Tvs Devil Suits Sunday Formulas Attributes Afternoon Romanticism Silk Programmes Formula One Sunday Afternoons Fixture

Author:Martin Sorrell

“It should not be a child's only goal to become the best player in the world. That would be a bad, a harmful attitude.”

World Should Children Would Be Goal Attitude Player Best Players

Author:Rafael Nadal

“My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."”

Knows Would Be Christian Attitude Fruit Atheist Orthodox

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

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