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“Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay for everything Israel does. We don't have any leverage in the sense that Israel controls the Senate. The Senate is at least...a subservient, in my opinion, much too much. We should be more concerned about the United States' interest, rather than doing the bidding of Israel. This is a most unusual development.”

Should Wells Doe States Interest United Pay Opinion United States Too Much Development Majors Concerned Jew Israel Finance Unusual Senate Bidding Subservient

Author:J. William Fulbright

“Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.”

People Want Giving Facts Opinion Issues Information Source Concerned Activist

Author:Barney Frank

“I am not here concerned with intent, but with scientific standards, especially the ability to tell the difference between a fact, an opinion, a hypothesis, and a hole in the ground.”

Facts Differences Ability Opinion Standards Concerned Holes Hypothesis

Book:Challenges

Source: Challenges

“But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.”

Wells Action Values Voice Powerful Behinds Moral Opinion Judgment Creating Intellectual Conscience Concerned Difficulty Tables Noble Levers Refining Valuation

Author:Georg Brandes

“This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.”

Men Desire Effort Opinion Building Theory Concerned Praise Insight Conception Imaginary Shelter Preservation Persistent Imperatives Spectacular Building Up

Author:Eric Hoffer

“The task of the political philosopher can only be to influence public opinion, not to organize people for action. He will do so effectively only if he is not concerned with what is now politically possible but consistently defends the "general principles which are always the same." In this sense I doubt whether there can be such a thing as a conservative political philosophy. Conservatism may often be a useful practical maxim, but it does not give us any guiding principles which can influence long-range developments.”

“When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.”

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Author:Martin Buber

“Pure painting or the art of drawing whose point of departure is based on purely formal criteria is,in my opinion,passé. I do not reject it if other artists make attempts,but as far as I am concerned,this is what I believe. if I do not place a text next to my drawings,I consider the work on such programmes to be futile.”

Ifs Believe Art Artist Next I Believe Opinion Painting Pure Concerned Drawing Rejects Formal Criteria Departure Programmes

Author:Gunter Brus

“I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless.”

Ifs Thinking Leader Opinion Wind Concerned Weak Obsessed Popularity Polls Catching Rating Opinion Polls Weak Leaders

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“Confronted with such a variety most philosophers try to establish one approach to the exclusion of all others. As far as they are concerned there can only be one true way- and they want to find it. Thus normative philosophers argue that knowledge is a result of the application of certain rules, they propose rules which in their opinion constitute knowledge and reject what clashes with them.”

Way Want Trying Certain Results Opinion Approach Concerned Philosopher Arguing Variety Rejects Application Propose Clash Exclusion

Book:Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being

Source: Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being

“But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced to both parties concerned, effects of the same complexion with the usual fruits of national errour. The present age is cajoled to tax and enslave itself, by the errour of believing that it taxes and enslaves future ages to enrich itself.”

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Author:John Taylor of Caroline