#reason

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#each #either #errors #figure #group

I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#career #challenge #city #different #different parts

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips. ↗

— Peter Singer

#basically #bit #cheese #consider #exploitation

The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the U.S. dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable level. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#dollar #flows #global #impact #kept

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#argument #believe #brilliant #case #chain

The only things that haven't worked for me are when I've held back. There's no reason to sell an idea short. The only risk would be to not fulfill the dream. ↗

— Ron Johnson

#dream #fulfill #haven #held #i

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#educators #exposure #fear #first #implicit

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#always #eye #know #may #never

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#always #any #considered #deceiving #great

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#failure #forty #million #reasons #single