#nearly

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#back #believe #better #cruelty #life

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ↗

— Frances Cornford

#branch #consists #deceiving #friends #lying

In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#addition #average #billion #california #emergency

And so, little by little, I gradually divested myself of pretty nearly all of the guest conducting I used to do, because I was at the same time working in the places like the Met, where I could work in this sort of depth. ↗

— James Levine

#conducting #could #depth #divested #gradually

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#comics #could #exploited #i #much

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#computer #literate #nearly #our #parents

Elements which are similar as regards their chemical properties have atomic weights which are either of nearly the same value (eg. Pt, Ir, Os) or which increase regularly (eg. K, Ru, Cs). ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#chemical #either #elements #increase #nearly

Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk that they may strike again grows every day. ↗

— Bob Ney

#again #country #day #every #every day

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs. ↗

— Bob Ney

#arctic national wildlife refuge #create #good #increase #jobs

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#always #art #been #bought #children