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“[The Royal Society] is quite simply the voice of science in Britain. It is intellectually rigorous, not afraid to be outspoken on controversial issues such as climate change, but it is not aggressively secular either, insisting on a single view of the world. In fact, there are plenty of eminent scientists - Robert Winston, for instance - who are also men of faith.”

Men World Facts Science Faith Voice Views Issues Scientist Climate Climate Change Instance Plenty Britain Not Afraid Secular Royal Controversial Insisting Outspoken Controversial Issues

Author:Bill Bryson

“Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone says to me, 'OK, fine. You're the boss!' What irks me is that in 90% of such instances what that person is really saying is, 'OK, then, I don't agree with you, but I'll roll over and do it because you're telling me to. But if it doesn't work out I'll be the first to remind everyone that it wasn't my idea.'”

Ifs Firsts Persons Ideas Fine Agree Work Out Instance Odd Phrases Boss Insightful

Author:Richard Branson

“I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!”

States Might Courses Left United United States Focus Hatred Silent Instance Chinese Annoying Capitalist Colonialism Suspicious Annoyed Leftists

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.”

World Care Discipline Perfection Safety Available Instance Aviation Devices Imperfect Railroads Secured A Perfect World Imperfect World

Author:Ivy Lee

“I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley”

Men Wit Clever Instance Remarkable Apprehension Quickness Clever Man Huxley

Book:On the Origin of Species

Source: On the Origin of Species

“I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom . . . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was . . . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.”

People Knows Way Ideas Dies Painting Innocent Instance Fighter Paradise Flags Contrast Contradictory Medieval Bin Laden Foreheads Freedom Fighter American Flag Theocracy Cairo Benghazi

Author:Paul Wolfowitz

“We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.”

Ifs Earth Water Principles Fire Air Planets Constant Instance Remarkable Heroism Here And There Occasional Governing Systematic

Author:Russell Banks

“In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.”

Men World Past Percent Program Focused Instance Developing Agendas Farmers Subsistence Sub Saharan Africa

Author:Melinda Gates

“Male love circuits get an extra kick when stress levels are high. After an intense physical challenge, for instance, males will bond quickly and sexually with the first willing female they lay eyes on. Women, by contrast, will rebuff advances or expressions of affection and desire when under stress. The reason may be that the stress hormone cortisol blocks oxytocin's action in the female brain, abruptly shutting off a woman's desire for sex and physical touch.”

“But certainly in Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa, people don't really talk about sex and certainly religious leaders - some of them - up to now have been very unwilling to accept, for instance, the promotion of condom use”

People Has Beens Use Sex Religious Leader Accepting South Instance South Africa Promotion Unwilling Condom Religious Leaders Uganda Mozambique Condom Use

Author:Emma Thompson

“I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.”

“Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.”

Giving Killing Objectives Instance Theme Knives Pigs Stalking Bowie

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?”

Feels Has Beens Sex Generations Taught Rain Instance Poison Hunters Gonzo

Book:Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

Source: Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

“I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!”

Ifs Way Writing Study Proud Deny Instance Strings I Have Learned Quartets String Quartets

Book:Arnold Schönberg: catalogue raisonné

Source: Arnold Schönberg: catalogue raisonné

“The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are real and they must be destroyed.”

Art Real States Law Father Nations Institutions Feminist Destroyed Instance Tribes Communes Aberration

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours.”

Country Hours Saws Four Feet Rain India Twenties Climate Intense Instance Mumbai Rainfall

Book:Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

“But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .] and nobody by to perceive them. [...] The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived; the trees therefore are in the garden [. . .] no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.”

Imagine Tree Objects Easier Garden Instance Perceive Parks

Author:George Berkeley

“I think the quality of something like the Beveridge, for instance, will have a life of its own.”

Thinking Quality Instance

Author:Neville Marriner

“Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?”

World Has Beens Two Practice Century Masters Theory Tasks Slave Educated Instance World History Gradualism

Book:The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison

Source: The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison

“Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.”

Needs Years Stills Home Might Together Three Months News Army Ancient Instance Instant Three Months

Author:Peter Singer

“In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.”

Source: Collins complete works of Oscar Wilde

“Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it.”

“Personally, when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true. I think either we have unlimited rights, or we have no rights at all. Personally I lean towards unlimited rights, I feel for instance I have the right to do anything I please, BUT! If I do something you don't like I think you have the right to kill me.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Two Rights Please Instance Two Things Freedom Of Speech Unlimited Kill Me

Author:George Carlin

“The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.”

World British Instance Islands Crowns Banking Fifth Colony Caribbean Cayman Islands

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.”

Instance Obedience Motive Disobedience

Author:George Muller

“I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like: horrid, I know: selfish, conceited, and material-minded. For instance, lately whenever I've tried to concentrate on anything serious or beautiful, I've started thinking about the Spencers' dance next week. I am ashamed of my pettiness. I'm going to try to do better this year--develop my character more and not always be thinking about enjoying myself. I've always been so happy, I dread disappointment and unhappiness, but they would be good for me. But I don't want them.”

“Lying under an acacia tree with the sound of the dawn around me, I realized more clearly the facts that man should never overlook: that the construction of an airplane, for instance, is simple when compared [with] a bird; that airplanes depend on an advanced civilization, and that were civilization is most advanced, few birds exist. I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.”

Ifs Men Should Facts Lying Sound Simple Tree Depends Civilization Bird I Realized Instance Dawn Construction Airplane Advanced Civilization Acacia

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.”

Men War Nations Equal Instance Civil War Foreigners Pretense Despotism Declaring Pretence Us Civil War Emigrating

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.”

Matter Government Individual Divine Essence Absolutes Aim Majority Tyranny Instance Anarchy Subordination Divine Right Majority Rule

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know, with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army, for instance, and most of the press of the country, clothed General Lee with just such qualities, but I had known him personally, and knew that he was mortal; and it was just as well that I felt this.”

People Knows Wells Country Felt Natural Ability Quality Known Army Presses Instance Mortals Disposition Commanders Superhuman General Lee

Book:Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50

Source: Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50

“I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.”

People Has Beens Whole Law Desire Interest Judgment Errors Instance Comparison

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.”

Ifs Men Believe Wells Matter Whole Would Be Care Humanity Vision Instance Providence Evident Bewildered

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names”

Firsts Names Practice Effects Produce Understood Instance Discourse Deliberate

Book:Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of

Source: Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of

“Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.”

People Children Body Seems Remember Memories Instance Small Child Previous Life

Author:Stanislav Grof

“In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.”

Sometimes Past Memories Details Instance Remarkable Accuracy Past Life Good Memories

Author:Stanislav Grof

“I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.”

Thinking School Social Produce Institutions Conservative Instance Reform Hospitals Beneficial Social Institutions

Author:Tony Abbott

“The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great documents guarantee to us all the rights to personal and spiritual self-fulfillment. But that guarantee is not self-executing. As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of the change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.”

“If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.”

Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

“Protection of the life of the mother as an excuse for an abortion is a smoke screen. In my 36 years of pediatric surgery, I have never known of one instance where the child had to be aborted to save the mother's life. If toward the end of the pregnancy complications arise that threaten the mother's health, the doctor will induce labor or perform a Caesarean section. His intention is to save the life of both the mother and the baby. The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.”

“I want to be bigger than everybody else, but I wouldn't want to be so big that people can't accept it. For instance, if you come in with 30-inch-arms, even your own peers aren't going to accept that. I wouldn't want to be that way. I wouldn't want to infinitely become unreal.”

People Ifs Way Want Bigs Accepting Arms Bigger Instance Inches Peers Unreal

Author:Mike Katz

“In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.”

Needs Music Is Understood Instance Spoken Word

Author:Victor Wooten

“The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?”

Has Beens Real Action Sound Industry Degrees Greed Stupidity Driven Real Life Instance Patriotism Music Industry

Author:Ronnie James Dio

“For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?”

Country Crime Murder Instance Decline Aggravation Mayhem

Author:Christiane Amanpour

“I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Stories Happens Kids Song Father Creativity Instance Best Things

Author:Roger Waters

“In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.”

Feels May Persons Care Action Term Hurt Behavior Findings Bases Angry Guilty Instance Hurtful Rationalize

Book:Unmasking the Face: A Guide to Recognizing Emotions from Facial Clues

Source: Unmasking the Face: A Guide to Recognizing Emotions from Facial Clues

“Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.”

Firsts Would Be Rewards Instance Administration Rely Adversaries Illogical Counterproductive

Author:Richard V. Allen

“I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.”

Next Music Jazz Extremes Instance Melody Bells Jazz Music Saxophone

Author:Roscoe Mitchell

“It is well for civilization that human beings constantly strive to gain greater and greater rewards, for it is this urge, this ambition, this aspiration that moves men and women to bestir themselves to rise to higher and higher achievement. Individual success is to be won in most instances by studying and diagnosing the kind of rewards human hearts seek today and are likely to seek tomorrow.”

“I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you.”

People Guy Felt Stress Instance

Author:Dave Chappelle

“I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.”

People Might Sides Interesting Dog Objects Flower Instance Fence My Dog Nephew

Author:Lacey Chabert

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