#positions

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#dispositions #efficacy #except #happy #instruction

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#expectation #groups #mutually #poetry #political

But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies. ↗

— Christie Hefner

#age #because #big #big companies #business

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#appointing #argue #because #campaign #emphatic

My positions on gun safety have remained consistent over the years, and have been on my website for years. Whether I'm in a tough re-election race, an easy re-election race, or if it isn't an election year, whether there's a high-profile tragedy in the news or otherwise, my position remains unchanged and on my website. ↗

— Brad Sherman

#consistent #easy #election #gun #high-profile

So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions. ↗

— Michael Strahan

#defense #everyone #i #positions #rather

We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

#dispositions #get #inside #less #motives

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with understanding realize that their presuppositions should be *chosen* after a careful consideration of which worldview is true. ↗

— Francis A. Schaeffer

#catch #francis-schaeffer #measels #presuppositions #schaeffer

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination. ↗

— Rosalyn S. Yalow

#discrimination #due #failure #large #leadership

It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#also #could #difficulty #enterprise #found