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“I must confess my distaste for any proposal to use public funds for the support of selected, and thereby, privileged, industrialists, the more particularly if this is to be based on bureaucratic views of what is good and what is bad by way of industrial development, but I have been studying the report referred to with some interest.”

Ifs Way Use Grows Views Support Growing Up Development Industry Fund Privileged Infant Proposal Selected Distaste

Author:John James Cowperthwaite

“Over the long term, despite significant drops from time to time, stocks (especially an intelligently selected stock portfolio) will be one of your best investment options. The trick is to GET to the long term. Think in terms of 5 years, 10 years and longer. Do your planning and asset allocation ahead of time. Choose a portion of your assets to invest in the stock market - and stick with it! Yes, the bad times will come, but over the truly long term, the good times will win out - and I hope the lessons from 2008 will help get you there to enjoy them.”

“Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.”

Humans Soul Desire Human Beings Numbers Failing Conscience Permit Recognizing Indulgence Selected Victorian Barmaids

Author:C. E. M. Joad

“People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what they already know. This is a form of living death. Its apotheosis is the daily poll in USA Today, which informs us what percentage of a small number of unscientifically selected people called a toll number to vote on questions that cannot possibly be responded to with a yes or no.”

Source: Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert: Second Edition

“Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.”

Long Has Beens Different Form Choices Individual Difficult Conditions Disease Long Time Determine Illness Psychological Impulse Neurotic Selected Difficult Questions

Book:Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.

Source: Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.

“The suggestion that Jews were selected from among all nations of the earth to be God's chosen people suggested a kind of group arrogance, especially when the good news was first reported by Jews. However, the choice was interpreted not as tribute to superior virtue but as divine challenge.”

People Firsts Kind Earth Choices Nations Challenges Virtue Groups Divine News Jew Chosen Superiors Arrogance Superiority Suggestions Good News Tribute Selected

Book:Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life

Source: Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life

“Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.”

Art Nature Works Of Art Selected Discarded

Author:Kafu Nagai

“Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the word, 'CHIROPRACTIC.'”

Two Done Hands Greek Weed Request Selected Chiropractic Reverends

Author:Daniel D. Palmer

“I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67 and that program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us...”

Half Military Program Laboratory Astronaut Selected Nasa

Author:Robert Crippen

“I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.”

Spirit Understanding Community Technology Internet Offers Foundation Partners Small Business Entrepreneurial Selected Boomers Entrepreneurial Spirit Advanced Technology

Author:Boomer Esiason

“[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a moment, by the explosion of a mass of matter in the womb, or centre of space. In one and the same instant of time, suns and planets shot into systems in every direction, and filled and spangled the illimitable void! He asserted this to be an intolerable degradation -referring, as it were, all the beauty and harmony of nature to something like the bursting of a barrel of gunpowder! that spit its combustible materials into a pock-freckled creation!”

“[When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people. Then, as a chemist, I know how to eat, how to exercise, keep my blood circulating. ... I don't worry. I don't get angry at people. I don't worry about things I can't help. I do what I can to make the world a better place to live, but I don't complain if things aren't right. As a scientist I take the world as I find it.”

“We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.”

Life Made Self Helping Seems Individual West Selected Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Fetish

Book:A Way of Being

Source: A Way of Being

“Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.”

Years Country Numbers Four Prove Four Years Sanctuary Selected Cambodia

Author:William Kunstler