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“When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.”

“Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage Do not believe in conjecture Do not believe in authority, or teachers, or elders But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.”

Believe Has Beens Reason Accepting Teacher Written Generations Heard Authority Benefits Ethics Tradition Agree Careful Statements Observation Analysis Live By Sage Elders Conjecture

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment of our situation. But can you imagine a media commentator making the following assertion? "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to raise taxes on the rich."”

Problem Choices Social Situation Rich Cutting Imagine Media Taxes Capitalism Raises Following Extremes Debt Spending Statements Objectives Assertion Commentators Assessment

Author:Linda McQuaig

“Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught... Preach nothing else than what we received from our forefathers... Accordingly, both in the rule of faith and in the observance of discipline, let the standard of antiquity be maintained throughout.”

Men Father Memories Teach Taught Discipline Standards Harmony Statements Breasts Catholicism Antiquity Forefathers Instill Nothing New Observance

Author:Pope Leo I

“We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:9 says that God forgives us because He is ‘just.’ That is a remarkable statement. It would be unjust of God to ever deny us forgiveness, because Jesus earned our acceptance! In religion we earn our forgiveness with our repentance, but in the gospel we just receive it.”

Would Be Suffering Order Jesus Christ Acceptance Forgiving Deny Statements Merit Remarkable Repentance Unjust God Forgives

Author:Timothy Keller

“The last 10 to 20 years you’d think that it has been all about VCs making money, because that’s all we hear about. But really it is all about VCs failing and failing to return capital and being f**king idiots. VCs are stupid. They are absolutely stupid. Does anyone want to challenge that statement? Does anyone think that VCs are not stupid?”

Thinking Want Years Doe Has Beens Lasts Challenges Failing Stupid Return Kings Statements Making Money Idiot Not Stupid

Author:Dave McClure

“We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement.”

Knows World Looks Simple Deals Know How Example Statements Christmas Glorious Mary Impossibility Upside Down World Upside Down

Book:The Christ of Christmas

Source: The Christ of Christmas

“Every event has a cause-that is ... for every event e1 there exists an event e2 (or a class of events e2, e3 ...) which precedes e1 and of which e1 is a necessary consequence.... If we assent to this statement then your "choice" to do A rather than B, whatever may have been at the time your sensation of freedom from any constraint, was entirely necessitated. You could not have done otherwise and hence, according to this conception of freedom, were not free.”

Ifs May Has Beens Done Choices Causes Freedom Class Events Consequence Statements Sensations Conception Constraints

Author:Ermanno Bencivenga

“It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.”

Facts Freedom Simple Results Effects Blessing Enlightenment Prejudice Constant Tolerance Statements Boredom Repetition Liberating

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I got a feeling your statements are true but all they add up to is one big lie.”

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Author:Vincent Gardenia

“[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in later life, and makes it very difficult for them to accept the methods of thought which are successful in science.”

Kind Children Religion Difficult Accepting Virtue Successful Taught Evidence Method Statements Adequate Prey Quacks

Author:John B. S. Haldane

“But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life.”

Men Mind States Reality Form House Existence Building He Man Statements Symbols Gestures

Book:The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

“The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.”

Facts Reality Fiction Balance Lessons Flow Income Statements Cash Sheets Cash Flow Balance Sheets

Author:Chris Chocola

“These statements absolutely do not correspond to reality. The Russian proposals are very simple stop all form of barter arrangements and shift to normal, market relations affecting gas supplies and gas transit.”

Reality Form Simple Normal Relation Statements Gas Arrangements Proposal Supplies

Author:Viktor Khristenko

“Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used.”

Should Reality Used Language Understanding Statements Threatened

Author:Mohammad Javad Zarif

“I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.”

Made Facts Feelings Artist Heard Serious Singing Singers Devotion Statements Crude

Book:On Conducting

Source: On Conducting

“If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.”

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Author:Meg Greenfield

“You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.”

Ifs Want Needs Values Goal Achieve Management Rewards Missions Statements Mission Statement

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“We fed the public a line of deceit, dishonesty, a fabrication of statistics and figures. We succeeded because the time was right and the news media cooperated. We sensationalized the effects of illegal abortions, and fabricated polls which indicated that 85 percent of the public favored unrestricted abortion, when we knew it was only 5 percent. We unashamedly lied, and yet our statements were quoted [by the media] as though they had been written in law.”

Law Lines Written Effects Media Figures News Percent Statements Abortion Deceit Illegal Statistics Feds Polls Lied Dishonesty In-laws Pro Life News Media Fabrication

Author:Bernard Nathanson

“Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.”

People Certain Culture Given Goal Design Expression Draws Statements Visuals Symbolic Life Goal Good Design

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in over-estimating this, and representing a partial statement of truth as the whole truth. Geology, like many human beings, suffered from convulsions in its infancy; now, in its later years, I apprehend an attack of pressure on the brain.”

Thinking Years Humans Important Whole Science Human Beings Brain Doubt Rocks Danger Pressure Statements Factors No Doubt Representing Infancy Geology Whole Truth Estimating

Author:Thomas George Bonney

“The mission statement of my company, Kathy Ireland Worldwide, is to find solutions for families, especially busy moms. I'm reaching out to busy moms because that's what I am. That's what I know, and I know this woman has been underserved.”

Knows Has Beens Company Knowledge Mom Solutions Busy Missions Statements Reaching Reach Out Ireland Mission Statement

Author:Kathy Ireland

“Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.”

Firsts Made Real Figures Changed Real Life Statements Titles Life Changing Being Real Skating Figure Skating

Author:Debi Thomas

“You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.”

Way Want Feels Feelings Today Form Alive Statements Permanent Live For Today

Author:Aaron Copland

“The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.”

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Author:George Saunders

“Smart art galleries know it's not the words on paper but the emotion in the piece that makes clients pull out the credit card or check book. The gallery's number one concern is will this stuff sell? What your bio, artist's statement or resume articulates will be of no help if you don't make art that connects with buyers.”

Ifs Knows Art Book Helping Artist Stuff Numbers Emotion Pieces Paper Smart Concern Sells Credit Checks Statements Cards Clients Gallery Credit Card Resumes Buyers Art Galleries Bios Words On Paper

Author:Jack White

“My statements are just a statement of fact.”

Facts Statements

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“My hair is an aesthetic choice… At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.”

Wells Political Choices Hair Statements Aesthetic

Author:Erykah Badu

“When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear”

People Looks Race Clear Hair Statements Processing

Book:Assata: An Autobiography

Source: Assata: An Autobiography

“Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.”

Humans Doe Lost Existence Depends Pure Statements Nevertheless Sensitivity

Book:Relativity, Philosophy and Mind: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

Source: Relativity, Philosophy and Mind: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

“The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.”

Ends Games Principles One Day Tests Statements Retiring

Book:The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery

“I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.”

Has Beens Made Statements

Book:He Touched Me: An Autobiography

Source: He Touched Me: An Autobiography

“For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence--an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered--'In the beginning God.'”

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Author:Arthur Compton

“Our quarrel is not with Egypt, still less with the Arab world. It is with Colonel Nasser. He has shown that he is not a man who can be trusted to keep an agreement. Now he has torn up all his country's promises to the Suez Canal Company and has even gone back on his own statements.”

Men World Stills Country Company Gone Promise Statements Agreement Trusted Egypt Torn Quarrels Canals Colonels Arab World

Author:Anthony Eden

“I hadn’t seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work. And, furthermore, that some people have a sex life and others don’t just because some are more attractive than others. I wanted to acknowledge that if people don’t have a sex life, it’s not for some moral reason, it’s just because they’re ugly. Once you’ve said it, it sounds obvious, but I wanted to say it.”

People Ifs Said Reason Happens Wanted Sex Sound Moral Novel Obvious Ugly Graves Things Happen Statements Acknowledge Attractive Entering Workforce

Author:Michel Houellebecq

“The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is … political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.”

Art Political Artist Claims Statements Divides Bourgeois Good Poetry

Author:Amiri Baraka

“Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer”

Way States Animal Behavior Conscious Concern Originals Response Statements Observers Inner Life

Book:Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

“People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.”

People Ideas Moments Desire Hours Emotion Particular Assuming Mood Statements Permanent Never Assume

Book:Mastery

Source: Mastery

“Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire”

World Reality Seems Pieces Statements Acquire Miniatures

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.”

Mean Technique Statements Arriving

Book:Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990

Source: Jackson Pollock: black enamel paintings, April-May 1990

“An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately empathic is something which can be developed by training. Therapists, parents and teachers can be helped to become empathic. This is especially likely to occur if their teachers and supervisors are themselves individuals of sensitive understanding. It is most encouraging to know that this subtle, elusive quality, of utmost importance in therapy, is not something one is "born with", but can be learned, and learned most rapidly in an empathic climate.”

“It doesn't sound like there was time for the word to be there. On the other hand, I didn't intentionally make an inane statement... certainly the 'a' was intended, because that's the only way the statement makes any sense.”

Way Hands Sound Space Statements

Author:Neil Armstrong

“I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'. If, in the chaos of the motives that have made you listen to the radio tonight, there was an honest, rational desire to learn what is wrong with the world, you are the man whom I wished to address. By the rules and terms of my code, one owes a rational statement to those whom it does concern and who are making an effort to know. Those who are making an effort to fail to understand me, are not a concern of mine.”

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results.”

Thinking Firsts Reason Results Practice Mines Theory Prove Experiments Statements Reason Why Publish Signatures Theory And Practice

Book:Nikola Tesla on His Work with Alternating Currents and Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and Transmission of Power: An Extended Interview

Source: Nikola Tesla on His Work with Alternating Currents and Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and Transmission of Power: An Extended Interview

“The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.”

“A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.”

Made Age Events Information Type Evidence Direct Statements Legends Relative Formal Sequence Personal Information Sequence Of Events

Book:Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

“Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.”

Giving Made Different Movement Periods Limits Elements Population Appearance Statements Comparison Time Limit

Book:Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

Source: Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality

“He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.”

Mind May Successful Intelligent Flesh Wounds Statements Chinese Slander Confucianism Confucian

Book:Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

“I hope we don't see no paparazzi today. Because I'm still getting acquainted with these jogging pants I threw on. Like, 'That's not my statement!'”

Stills Today Crazy Statements Pants Paparazzi Jogging Blowfish

Author:Kanye West

“Why (he wondered rhetorically) do people who have a position that's being attacked constantly state that they have a right to say it, as if the right itself-rather than the statement-has been challenged?”

People Ifs Has Beens States Position Humorous Profound Statements Insane

Author:Peter David