#surely

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#every #logic #philosopher #picture #pure

No man surely has so short a memory as the American. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#man #memory #short #surely

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#banks #believed #bill #case #change

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#character #else #fails #jest #man

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#collar #fact #hair #him #his

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#ourselves #surely #then #unknown

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#capitol hill #classroom #country #does #great

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. ↗

— William Morris

#arts #civilization #competition #degradation #die