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“Have I ever remarked on how completely ridiculous it is to ask high school students to decide what they want to do with the rest of their lives and give them nearly no support in doing so? Support like, say, spending a day apiece watching twenty different jobs and then another week at their top three choices, with salary charts and projections and probabilities of graduating that subject given their test scores? The more so considering this is a central allocation question for the entire economy?”

“Neither logic nor scientific evidence supports such a belief. Although spinal manipulation can relieve certain types of back pain, neck pain, and other musculoskeletal symptoms, there is no scientific evidence that it can restore or maintain health. As a result of expressing my opinion on this subject, I have been called a chiropractic heretic.”

Source: Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide

“What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.”

Thinking Writing Art Book Would Be Earth Together Artist Language Support Air Subjects Style Invisible Thoughtful Attachment Exterior

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“In the middle years of childhood, it is more important to keep alive and glowing the interest in finding out and to support this interest with skills and techniques related to the process of finding out than to specify any particular piece of subject matter as inviolate.”

Years Important Matter Process Interest Support Learning Pieces Alive Childhood Middle Subjects Particular Skills Findings Technique Related Glowing Subject Matter

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm.”

Mind Long Soul Lasts Prayer Support Subjects Enthusiasm Your Soul Contemplation Mystical Piety Support You

Book:Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764: Including His Correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zélide)

Source: Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764: Including His Correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zélide)

“The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'”

Should States Home Government Enjoy Goal Ability Poor Lord Support Rich Written Subjects Ought Economics Protection Libertarian Riches Inequality Proportion Remedy Taxation Revenue

Author:Adam Smith

“The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.”

States Government Ability Support Subjects Ought Proportion Wealth Of Nations Progressive Taxation

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.”

“Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.”

Want Easy Support Subjects Familiar Command Officers Condescending

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.”

Thinking Reason Home Opinion Support Subjects Add Labour Spares Remarks Sluggish

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“An Animated Cartoon Theology: 1. People are animals. 2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain. 3. Life is antagonistic to the living. 4. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music. 5. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning. 6. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum. 7. We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.”

People Long Body Able Pain Life Is Walks Animal Support Air Subjects Smart Illusion Incredibles Flesh Theology Destroyed Mortals Dumb Burned Cartoon Frozen Cunning Momentum Crushed Animated

Author:E. L. Doctorow

“I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and that is: I say that I'm not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who support it. I think only when I've reached that state am I qualified to speak. This business of not drifting into extreme ideology is a very, very important thing in life”

“Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women.”

Children Political Imagination Moral Support Mystery Subjects Missing Photography Adults Regard Distance Critics Males Awe Involving Sinking Nudity Pumps Enchantment Disapproval

Author:J. G. Ballard