#establishing

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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Proceeding further, to inquire whether the facts related by the Four Evangelists are proved by competent and satisfactory evidence, we are led, first, to consider on which side lies the burden of establishing the credibility of the witnesses. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#competent #consider #credibility #establishing #evangelists

We are pushing towards the dream of having our independent state with Jerusalem as its capital. If there is a real project that aims to resolve the Palestinian cause on establishing a Palestinian state on 1967 borders, under full Palestinian sovereignty, we will support it. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#borders #capital #cause #dream #establishing

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#colonies #different #establishing #exaggerated #instrumental

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#destroyed #disputes #establishing #force #foundation

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ↗

— Doug Larson

#detours #establishing #goals #interesting #right

All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities. ↗

— Gary Locke

#balanced #budgets #constitution #either #establishing

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#cinema #copying #done #establishing #first