#positions

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions? ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#before #class #could #country #doing

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#positions #progress #resulted #took #unpopular

Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#compositions #different #eclectic #fact #gave

We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#compositions #finds #go #hundreds #quality

This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#on-terminal-prepositions #grammar

If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed. ↗

— George MacDonald Fraser

#sex #love

In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#case #enron #our #positions #time

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#employs #hypotheses #inquiry #never #points

These guys were the best. They were the best at their positions and made playing the game easier. And at the same time it made it so much more enjoyable. ↗

— Johnny Bench

#easier #enjoyable #game #guys #made

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitude #dogmas #evidence #find #insists