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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #standing




The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.


John Stuart Mill


#custom #despotism #everywhere #hindrance #human

Radiative transfer calculations I can do standing on my head.


Christopher Monckton


#head #i #i can #standing #transfer

Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.


Leonardo DiCaprio


#her #i #meryl #meryl streep #never

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.


Elizabeth Drew


#democracy #like #limits #relationship #rests

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.


Adam Ferguson


#commercial #depress #equal #equal rights #every

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.


Ron Fournier


#dynamics #fact #getting #his #left

I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.


Morgan Freeman


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Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.


Milton Friedman


#employment #entertainment #exist #ideas #knowledge

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.


Thomas Friedman


#differently #expensive #frame #fuels #gone

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.


Clifford Stoll


#data #information #knowledge #understanding #wisdom






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