#statement

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#come #consider #created #criticism #excitement

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story. ↗

— Emily Procter

#car #different #i #i am #organized

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#class #concepts #descriptive #discussing #faculties

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#false #obvious #problem #says #self-defeating

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes. ↗

— Norah Jones

#big #fun #make #making #mistakes

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#history #religion #science #similarity #statement

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. ↗

— John Ruskin

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