Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

Charles Peguy

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.

Denis Diderot

Passions destroy more prejudices than philosophy does.

Denis Diderot

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Denis Diderot

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth.

Denis Diderot

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Denis Diderot

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Dean Wareham

They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.

Terri Holmes

Now our errors are not killing us. Our mentality is improving too. It was a good weekend for us.

Democritus

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Deborah Sampson

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!

Edgar Allan Poe

In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

Dick Taylor

Error reduction is like adverse-event reduction; it's a continuous battle, not a one time fix.

Abdu'l Baha

If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.

Aaron Burr

Error often is to be preferred to indecision.

Chris Finwood

The pitching was really good for the most part. South Alabama's (junior) pitcher P.J. Walters was great for them. Friday night's game was more of a pitchers' duel. Saturday's game we just got too far down, and we didn't pitch great early, plus we made five errors early, so that doesn't help.

Keri Payne

We made a lot of mental errors and we didn't get off to a good start defensively.

H. Hunt

More than 100,000 Soldiers have trained on our combat convoy simulators, mostly National Guard. About 1,000 pilots, crew chiefs and Soldiers have trained on the door-gunner simulator at Fort Hood and Fort Rucker.

George Speight

On the morning of Thursday, before the chiefs sit down, all of the hostages will be released.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Jack Kent Cooke

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

Mark Schlereth

With the way the Chiefs have played offense, he'd be a guy you'd have to consider, that some team would have to consider. There's going to be a lot of opportunity out there.

Dale Jarrett

We have two crew chiefs who are willing to work with that engineering staff. Before, we haven't exactly had that combination working. Now we feel like because everyone who has come here has been talked to about the same ideas, everyone is on the same page. We're going to be a much better organization than we have in quite a few years.

Marty Schottenheimer

We did not lose today. We got beat. We're obviously disappointed. This was a difficult game, and the Chiefs did everything they needed to in order to win.

Jamal Lewis

We really knocked the snot -- for lack of a better word -- out of each other on Friday,'' Chiefs defensive end Eric Hicks said.

John Force

We've enjoyed being involved in the SYNTEC Outperformers program these last four years, ... because it encourages the young individuals who'll be the racing crew chiefs of the future. I want to personally salute Chris Burd as the national scholarship winner.