#sit

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #inevitability

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#country #intelligent #loyalty #opposition #part

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#could #either #events #felt #hesitates

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.' ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#facts #going #i #ignorant #keep

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#command #criticism #debatable #does #fair

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#cast #continuance #day #dies #down

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition. ↗

— Juan Cole

#always #another #country #proposition #tricky

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me. ↗

— Paula Cole

#awards #bask #death #i #like

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner. ↗

— Holly Valance

#dinner #down #girlfriends #having #i

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others. ↗

— James S. Coleman

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