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“Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.”

“It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.”

Light Movement Position Tradition Chosen Broke Planes Dancer Frozen Posture Snapshots

Author:Sonia Delaunay

“You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.”

Important Real Lying Progress Trouble Movement Position Important Things

Author:Chris Murray

“It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.”

Body Movement Position Ought Conscience Asking Rounds Executives

Author:Ernest Bevin

“Philosophy's position with regard to science, which at one time could be designated with the name "theory of knowledge," has been undermined by the movement of philosophical thought itself. Philosophy was dislodged from this position by philosophy.”

Has Beens Philosophy Names Movement Position Theory Philosophical Regard One Time Theory Of Knowledge

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.”

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence.”

Way Hard Political Religious Leader Doubt Movement Position Authority Casts Revolutionary Rising Islamic Regimes Academic Tides Competence Khomeini

Author:Yousef Saanei

“New York was something like a circus performer walking a tightrope an juggling at the same time....It could barely maintain its position, but an movement would tip the whole balance.”

Whole New York Movement Position Balance Walking Performers Circus Juggling

Author:John Lindsay

“Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.”

Country Use Purpose Community Results Attention Movement Position Decided International Colleagues Comrade International Community Using Me

Author:Nelson Mandela

“The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.”

Mind Mean Matter Together Levels Known Movement Position Overwhelming Atoms Quantum Quantum Mechanics Spun Mind And Matter

Book:True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

“[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.”

People Movement Position Kings Picks Luther Single People

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“There's no question that frankly Hillary Clinton took positions that she never had before because of this political movement. If you look at her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which she had previously repeatedly called the gold standard, she now says she's against it.”

Ifs Looks Political Movement Position Standards Gold Clinton Opposition Partnership Trans Pacific Political Movements Gold Standard

Author:Jonathan Tasini

“Every climb is different, has its own unique set of movements and body positions. Climbing and my appreciation for nature are totally intertwined.”

Different Body Movement Position Unique Appreciation Climbs Climbing Intertwined

Author:Chris Sharma