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Valid criticism does you a favor. -- Carl Sagan
Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done. -- Max Anders
My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing. -- Stephen Lang
It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better. -- Gianni Versace
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. -- William James
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. -- Tommy Smothers
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. -- Alan Watts
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid. -- Max Weber
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements. -- B. F. Skinner
No apparent, perceived, or claimed evidence in any field, including history and chronology, can be valid if it contradicts the Scriptural record. -- Ken Ham
I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world. -- CeeLo Green
The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?' -- Jeff Bezos
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. -- Simone Weil
Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation. -- Rick Warren
The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations. -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. -- Julien Benda
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations. -- Henry Petroski
It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops. -- Evan Hunter
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. -- Alan Watts
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. -- Tracey Emin
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial. -- David Attenborough
The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate. -- Michael Nesmith
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. -- David Ogilvy
I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't. -- Carl Paladino
I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid. -- Helmut Newton
Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid. -- Jimmy Page
The public may admire a corporation for its impressive size. Who in the United States doesn't? But when a business, however gigantic, gets smug enough to believe that it is sufficient only to match competition on trivial points instead of leading competition in valid matters, that business is becoming vulnerable to public disfavor. -- Raymond Loewy
For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience. -- Lisa Edelstein
A moral system valid for all is basically immoral. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. -- Robert Higgs
I think the materialist conception of history is valid. -- Christopher Hitchens
If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law. -- Cassandra Clare
It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare. -- Ted Rall
Making it a valid law to learn by suffering. -- Aeschylus
Only one valid law: never belittle others. Never belittle yourself. -- Marty Rubin
Any excuse, no matter how valid, only weakens the character. -- Thomas S. Monson
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons. -- Gene Weingarten
Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character. -- Spencer W. Kimball
All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me. -- Mike Birbiglia
Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man. -- Albert Camus
A non-standard dialect is as valid communication system as the standard -- Kate Burridge
Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion. -- Alice Schwarzer
A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true. -- Johan Huizinga
Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid. -- Ramana Maharshi
The only valid voice of one's reputation is that spoken by one's conscience. -- Wes Fesler
In the reality - TV era, unstable behavior become a valid career choice. -- James Poniewozik
A valid scientific theory is predictive, verifiable, and replicable. To me, that's beautiful. -- Dean Ornish
The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An erection at will is the moral equivalent of a valid credit card. -- Alex Comfort
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. -- Peter F. Drucker
Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty. -- Robert Venturi
Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid. -- Suzanne Finnamore
Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything. -- Iyanla Vanzant
You have a right to your thoughts and feelings. Your feelings are always valid. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously. -- John F. Kennedy
Confidence by itself, unless it has a valid basis, can get us into trouble. -- Peter Schiff
There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. -- Ella Maillart
You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid -- Grace Coddington
Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe. -- C. S. Lewis
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. -- Andrew Wiles
In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income. -- Jean Rostand
It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one. -- Peter Greenaway
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven -- St. Jerome
I don't think there should be a hierarchy of what is valid in the arts. -- Seth Numrich
I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person. -- Zora Neale Hurston
When you have a valid opinion around, it takes a lot of the pressure off. -- Drake
If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it? -- Yann Martel
Treat your heart like a turnstile. Open it to only those who got valid tickets. -- Stef Harder
HGH testing is happening in Olympics. The science is there. It is a valid test. -- Roger Goodell
The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side. -- Peace Pilgrim
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. -- George Jean Nathan
I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities. -- Ben Stiller
There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid. -- Cindy Sheehan
If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line. -- Nick Nolte
My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones. -- George Soros
The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence. -- Peter Drucker
Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid. -- Jose Arguelles
Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections. -- Sonny Perdue
Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power. -- Hans Morgenthau
Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them? -- Magda Gerber
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid. -- Maya Lin
Indeed, of the major religions, Islam offers no discernible sliver of valid notion for How Life Works. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth. -- W. Somerset Maugham
I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid. -- Sonny Rollins
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. -- Charlie Chaplin
Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas. -- Rebecca West
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. -- Roddy Doyle
What is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently I'm doing it wrong. -- Stephenie Meyer
Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter. -- Freya Stark
Argentina wouldn't exist if not for self-determination, and this can't be valid for some but not for others. -- Pepe Eliaschev
Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago. -- Ralph Steadman
No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge. -- Ayn Rand
The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. -- Susan Sontag
The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful. -- Huldrych Zwingli
Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that. -- Morley Safer
Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things. -- Kathryn Lasky
Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans' error. -- Tim Powers
I wanted my anger to be valid, and the only way to do that is to be fairly attractive. -- Courtney Love
We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. -- Mark Rothko
Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study. -- Idries Shah
Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error. -- Kathryn Kuhlman
Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality. -- Ellen Glasgow
Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer. -- Peter Drucker
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy. -- Paul Watzlawick
All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning...Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true. -- C. S. Lewis
Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others. -- Reza Aslan
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms. -- Clement Greenberg
One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic. -- William Hull
The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid. -- Bryan Stevenson
He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself. -- James Finn Garner
Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter. -- Helen Van Slyke
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man. -- John Steinbeck
The Monkees are to the Beatles what 'Star Trek' is to NASA. They are both totally valid in their contexts. -- Micky Dolenz

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