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“Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.”

Men Social Pay Accepting Groups Willing Benefits Claims Doctrine Dishonesty Pacifism Halos Social Groups

Book:Double Star

Source: Double Star

“Witness the American ideal: the Self-Made Man. But there is no such person. If we can stand on our own two feet, it is because others have raised us up. If, as adults, we can lay claim to competence and compassion, it only means that other human beings have been willing and enabled to commit their competence and compassion to us--through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, right up to this very moment.”

“We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.”

World Mean Ends Time Realizing Memories Sin Secret Gone Sadness Willing Late Claims Stranger Passing Admire Passings Too Late Time Passing Time Passes Secret Life Admiring Insufficiency

Author:Alexander Theroux

“I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit up there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't.”

People Should Looks Made Faces Decision Pay Willing Regret Please Truth Is Claims Your Face Judged

Author:Jack Bauer

“Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.”

Knows Way Force Willing Claims Best Way Suspicious Know It All

Author:Walter E. Williams

“It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.”

Men Humans May Certain Causes Ability Opinion Virtue Events Willing Thousand Claims Fortune Rate Accidents Merit Imaginary Advancement Scarce Concur

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it.”

Ifs Willing Claims

Author:Bill Maher

“We need to consider ancestral cleansing. If we're willing to clear our energy fields of the ancestral energies we don't want, then we are ready to do something really interesting and beautiful which is to claim a connection with the wisdom of the kinds of ancestors we do want to be in contact with. But we can't do this until we've cleaned out the lower stuff that is hindering us.”

Ifs Want Needs Kind Beautiful Energy Stuff Interesting Clear Fields Willing Ready Connections Claims Contact Ancestor Really Interesting Cleansing Energy Fields

Author:Robert Moss

“A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.”

Willing Evidence Logic Claims Asking Definitions Clarity Consistency Skeptic Adequacy

Author:Paul Kurtz

“I'm perfectly willing to say no more Iraqs, which means no more unilateral starting of the war on false claims, false information, and a complete misunderstanding of the nature of the situation in the region.”

Mean War Situation Information Willing Claims Starting Iraq Regions Misunderstanding

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing to do so." . . . "Come now," he said at last, "you can hardly claim that I have left you ignorant. I taught you to read, did I not?”

People Ifs Thinking Want Said Lasts Left Taught Willing Claims Ignorant Phantoms

Author:Frances Hardinge

“It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not recede and which, God willing, I will make good.”

World War Lasts Willing Europe Claims Gods Will War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War 2 Territorial

Author:Adolf Hitler

“I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.”

People Knows Humans May Long Causes Issues Willing Consequence Claims Assuming Climate Climate Change Acknowledge Global Warming Abandoned Long Ago Behaviour Coverage Pretence Impartiality

Author:Jeremy Paxman

“How do commercial interests usually protect themselves from liability claims? Through insurance. In fact, in our society, the litmus test for safety is insurance. You can be insured for almost anything if you pay enough for the premium, but if the insurance industry isn't willing to bet its money on the safety of [biotechnology], it means the risks are simply too high or too uncertain for them to take the gamble.”

Source: From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis