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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
by Henri Frederic Amiel (Philosopher, Swiss , born in 1821) keywords: accept, before, clearness, decides, insists, life, man, must, never, perfect, regret, seeing , upon President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.
by Fred Barnes (Journalist, American , born in 1963) keywords: economy, free, free-market, guy, how, insists, obama, president, really, understands, whether, wonder , works Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
by Thomas Carlyle (Philosopher, Scottish , born in 1795) keywords: breeding, differs, good, gracefully, high, insists, only, others, own, rather, remembers, rights , than Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
by Morris Raphael Cohen (Philosopher, Russian , born in 1880) keywords: alternatives, attitude, dogmas, evidence, find, insists, liberalism, out, plausible, possible, propositions, questioning, rather, reject, seeking, self-evident, set, support, than, their, them , upon He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.
by Albert Finney (Actor, British , born in 1936) keywords: after, changes, elaboration, give, insists, more, never, old, stories, tells, then, want , while In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
by Robert M. La Follette (Politician, American , born in 1895) keywords: insists, making, party, peace, preparation, prepared, soon, times , war I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.
by Sammy Hagar (Musician, American , born in 1947) keywords: david, eddie, even, insists, ironic, judge, lee, lying, met, never, rather, roth, saying, spoken, telling, things, truth, two, us , yet A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.
by Joe Henderson (Athlete, American , born in 1943) keywords: anyone, customers, enter, event, fundamental, insists, interferes, lesser, paying, properly, racing, rule, running , still Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
by Baron de Montesquieu (Philosopher, French , born in 1689) keywords: author, bored, come, content, fool, generations, having, him, insists, lived, those , tormenting An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
by Charles de Montesquieu (Philosopher, French , born in 1689) keywords: author, boring, content, fool, future, generations, insists, lives , those Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
by Taslima Nasrin (Writer, Bangladeshi , born in 1962) keywords: advance, around, earth, how, insists, moves, still, sun, teach, teaching , things The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
by Bill Vaughan (Journalist, American , born in 1915) topics: Politics keywords: always, cookie, does, everybody, insists, last, plate, somebody, sort, take , won How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) topics: Marriage keywords: being, expected, happy, her, how, human, insists, man, normal, perfectly, she, treating, were , woman