#without

Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#ayn #ayn rand #before #believe #facts

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#doubt #height #intellectual #means #nervous

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation. ↗

— Louis Finkelstein

#come #enter #fatal #grave #into

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Fishel

#both #dare #hold #images #mirrors

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship. ↗

— Frederick Forsyth

#becoming #british #coped #dictatorship #without

A blond in a red dress can do without introductions - but not without a bodyguard. ↗

— Rona Jaffe

#bodyguard #but not without #dress #red #without

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#achieve #any #business #flip #going

I'm a walker. I enjoy walking, which I think psychologically expresses my feelings of wanting liberation without exerting myself too much. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#exerting #expresses #feelings #i #i think

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#hidden #know #meaning #must #philosophy

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#affects #anymore #back #before #change