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  • He and I have this... personality conflict. Namely, I think he should get a new one. -- Scott Westerfeld
  • God will answer all our questions in one way and one way only. Namely, by showing us more of his Son. -- Watchman Nee
  • It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. -- Ken Jenkins
  • One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians. -- Albert Einstein
  • As I see it, the debate between summer vacation vs. year-round school glosses over the most important questions. Namely, how can we bring play back to our nation's schools? -- Darell Hammond
  • Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality. -- Ayn Rand
  • ... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context -- John Stott
  • Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it. -- William Kingdon Clifford
  • The contradiction is somehow unresolved. In the case of the business propaganda, it's particularly ironic because while business wants the population to hate the government, they want the population to love the government. Namely, they're in favor of a very powerful state which works in their interest. -- Noam Chomsky
  • In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty. -- Thomas Hood
  • The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists. -- Erwin Schrodinger
  • Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
  • Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. -- Karl Marx
  • We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself. -- Anna Freud
  • When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all. -- Benazir Bhutto
  • My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics. -- James Meade
  • The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. -- John Stuart Mill
  • There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. -- Edmund Burke
  • The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. -- E. M. Forster
  • We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind. -- Ramana Maharshi
  • The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself. -- John Piper
  • I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. -- Tony Abbott
  • For many years, I struggled with how I felt about myself. I hid and harbored very self-destructive eating issues, namely anorexia, which at its worst caused me to lose half of my hair and brought my weight down dramatically. -- Renee Olstead
  • A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit? -- Jacques Lacan
  • Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
  • The stunning thing about the world as it is, is that we have a tremendously large problem in it: namely, one-third of all human deaths, 80-million every year from poverty-related causes, trivial diseases and so on, and stunningly, nobody is really paying attention to it. -- Thomas Pogge
  • That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And we are especially reluctant to discuss what that mistreatment means for us as whites: namely that we end up with more and better opportunities as the flipside of discrimination. -- Tim Wise
  • In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on. -- Noam Chomsky
  • I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness. -- Paulo Coelho
  • The greatest cost, namely time. -- Antiphon
  • Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
  • We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it. -- Igor Stravinsky
  • The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up. -- Helen Gurley Brown
  • One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln. -- Roger Bacon
  • Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy. -- Mary Daly
  • There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty. -- William Rounseville Alger
  • I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England. -- Elizabeth I
  • We need to add to the three R's, namely Reading, 'Riting, and 'Rithmetic, a fourth--- RESPONSIBILITY. -- Herbert Hoover
  • Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
  • He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. -- Socrates
  • Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making sin seem either too large or too little ... -- Mary Baker Eddy
  • There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. -- Simone Weil
  • The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.' -- Alfred Korzybski
  • Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor. -- John Foster Dulles
  • By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. -- Jane Jacobs
  • It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services. -- Jim McKelvey
  • Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety. -- Bertrand Russell
  • To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules. -- Cesar Milstein
  • Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano. -- Bill Bruford
  • Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal. -- Adolf Hitler
  • Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. -- Thomas Huxley
  • I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life. -- Edward Abbey
  • Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin. -- Boethius
  • Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • "The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours. -- Tom Stoppard
  • This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise. -- Bertrand Russell
  • A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance. -- Voltaire
  • [There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], "namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state. -- Ali Khamenei
  • Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought. -- Julia Ward Howe
  • The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated. -- Paul Tillich
  • The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. -- Bertrand Russell
  • May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die. -- Charles Darwin
  • What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh. -- Henry Fielding
  • The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. -- Marie-Antoine Careme
  • ...Bolshevism in its proper perspective, namely, as the most recent development in the age-long struggle waged by the Jewish Nation against...Christ... -- Denis Fahey
  • Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. -- Jared Diamond
  • I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing -- John Searle
  • We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
  • I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. -- John Searle
  • We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical. -- Winston Churchill
  • I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous. -- Khem Veasna
  • The transponder requirements have three major sections, namely the chip; the antenna; and the assembly of the chip and the antenna onto the goods being labelled. -- Mike Marsh
  • Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue .. -- Aristotle
  • Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents. -- Ulrich Beck
  • One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next. -- Christopher Buckley
  • Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely patience, prayer, and thoughtful hope. -- Marcus Eremita
  • Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. -- Johann Arndt
  • Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God. -- Martin Luther
  • From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows. -- Charles Darwin
  • And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth! -- John Bunyan
  • [T]he great champion of the opponents of liberty, namely communism, had to find some other place to go and they basically went into the environmental movement. -- Harrison Schmitt
  • Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world. -- Rudolf Steiner
  • We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel. -- Federica Montseny
  • Americans make money by playing `money games,' namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth ... instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value. -- Akio Morita
  • There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth. -- Paul Tillich
  • We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue. -- Charles William Eliot
  • The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb. -- Pope Benedict XVI
  • If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement ... -- Rene Descartes
  • There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted. -- Russell Simmons
  • The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection -- C. S. Lewis
  • What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions. -- Aristotle
  • Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods. -- George Santayana
  • Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a well-nigh finished theoretical structure. -- Robert Andrews Millikan
  • Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never. -- Franz Kafka
  • Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people. -- Joseph Stalin
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