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There is no hope, as far as I can see, of pushing the postulates of economic theory back to a set of irreducible axioms. (Richard Stone)
It is far easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together. View quote
Sarah Zettel
Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation. View quote
William Goldman
I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home. View quote
Fran Drescher
More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method. View quote
Henry M. Morris
Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. View quote
Charles Cooley
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. View quote
Charles Cooley
Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean. (Brad Thor)
John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue. View quote
Bradley Whitford
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name. View quote
Vachel Lindsay
[I]n all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city. View quote
Daniel Dennett
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. View quote
James Henry Breasted
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. View quote
John Thomas Sladek
Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. View quote
Eve Ensler
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation. View quote
Elie Ducommun
It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting. View quote
Christian Bale
If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational. View quote
Lars Peter Hansen
I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart. (Leon Jouhaux)
As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that. View quote
Lucas Grabeel
I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written. View quote
Ted Shawn
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare. View quote
William Vickrey
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient. View quote
W. Averell Harriman