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Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here. Then, I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until the next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement, and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. (Alfred P. Sloan)
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up. View quote
John Updike
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. View quote
James Madison
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. View quote
George Eliot
Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory. View quote
Robert Aumann
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. View quote
Simone Weil
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. View quote
Edmund Burke
We are all different - but we share the same human spirit. Perhaps it's human nature that we adapt - and survive. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation. View quote
Margaret Mead
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. View quote
Karen Blixen
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. View quote
William S. Burroughs
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. View quote
Aaron Copland
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality. View quote
William Wilberforce
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. View quote
Dorothea Lange
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. View quote
Margaret Drabble
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find. (Hermann Hesse)
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Not more knowledge but better use of the knowledge which we now have, is perhaps the main educational need and the main educational problem which confronts us. View quote
Norman Angell
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. View quote
Claude Monet
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream. View quote
Don DeLillo