“ It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. ”
- Bill Watterson- Copy
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“ If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts — a selective memory. ”
- Jim Fiebig- Copy
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“ Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. ”
- Terence- Copy
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“ Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
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“ He who knows others is wise.He who knows himself is enlightened. - Tao Te Ching. ”
- Lao tzu- Copy
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“ I'm down with both direct action and electoral action. We need both. ”
- Jello Biafra- Copy
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“ Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. ”
- Bill Vaughn- Copy
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“ There will be motions made in court to enlist its support for a thorough investigation. It was selective violence calculated to destroy the ability of the defense to present its defense. ”
- Ramsey Clark- Copy
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“ You can't just buy a piece of junk and rent it out. What investors have to realize is that students are selective and sophisticated, and their parents are sophisticated. ”
- John Burns- Copy
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“ He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. ”
- Lao tzu- Copy
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“ Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. ”
- Richard Harris- Copy
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“ Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth. ”
- E. L. Doctorow- Copy
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“ Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes. ”
- Jane Elliot- Copy
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“ While we are disappointed... they specifically noted we are free to return to the federal courts to present our constitutional challenges to the selective and subjective manual recount process at an appropriate time in the future. ”
- James Baker- Copy
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“ Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. Unix is user-friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends are. Unix: It's not just 'User-Unfriendly', it's 'Proactively User-Hostile'! ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Swearing is like any other music…If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty… ”
- David Gridley- Copy
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“ The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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