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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell
Respect
Tyranny
Prison
Submission
Starvation
Unnecessary
Out
Insofar
Voluntary
Beyond
Opinion
Goes
Anything
Public
Should
Avoid
Public Opinion
Keep
Necessary
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Daniel Berrigan
Revolution
Promised
Insofar
Like
Heal
Interesting
Plague
There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.
Giordano Bruno
Nature
Simple
Light
Mother
Universe
Assumes
Preserving
Herself
All Things
Diverse
Insofar
Various
Casts
Divinity
Names
She
Subjects
Found
Her
Things
Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit.
Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual
Man
Complicated
Rest
Sense
Thinking
Our
Striving
Spirit
Insofar
Points
Observation
He
Most
Well
Scientific
Pillars
Departure
Common
Common Sense
Workings
Fundamental
Conscious
Two
I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
Anne Enright
Happy
Insofar
Writer
Since
Became
Been
Very
Anybody
Full-Time
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
Arthur Eddington
Rest
Every
State
Insofar
Except
Motion
Line
Straight
Straight Line
Uniform
Body
Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
Bill Kristol
Work
World
Conservative
Conservatives
Insofar
Fair
Fair Amount
Policies
Said
Proud
Real
Years
Any
The Real World
Real World
Worked
Whole
Amount
Set
I put all my time into Indian rights, and I think this is something I know something about, and I think that my time is best spent insofar as my political views are concerned.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Time
Best
Rights
Political
Think
Spent
All My Time
Indian
About
Something
Insofar
My Time
Put
Know
Concerned
Political Views
Views
Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.
Charlie Trotter
Work
God
Alone
Myself
Me
Sometimes
Down
Think
Other
Tyrant
Sun
Would
Insofar
Never
He
He Or She
Towards
She
Smiling
Coming
Line
Been
Exists
Than
Accused
Just
Being
Where
Room
Then
Should
Chosen
I connect much more with theatre actors than with cinema actors - insofar as you can speak of 'cinema actors' in Mexico, because there isn't a big film industry.
Diego Luna
You
Theatre
Speak
Cinema
Big
Insofar
More
Industry
Because
Mexico
Than
Much
Connect
Film
Actor
Film Industry
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
Gustav Heinemann
Reality
Better
Big
Secret
Additional
Consists
Entails
Direction
Insofar
Step
Simultaneously
Steps
Also
Discovering
Revolutionary
Tiny
The Secret Of
Strategic
Actions
It's always nice to be praised, and insofar as a prize is a form of praise, you're glad when you get it.
Howard Jacobson
You
Nice
Insofar
Glad
Always
Praise
Praised
Prize
Get
Form
Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
Ian Hacking
History
World
Mind
Looking
Experiment
Radical
Changed
Changes
Our
Way
Telling
Some
Followed
About
Insofar
Had
He
Terms
Talking
Sciences
Said
Scientists
Were
Intellectual
Very
Tinkering
Often
The History Of
Process
Theory
Incidents
Many
Whom
Spectacular
Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
J. William Fulbright
Obligations
Legal
Law
Behavior
Reciprocal
Those
Insofar
Observed
Provides
Stability
Order
Predicting
Us
Means
International
International Law
Whom
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
James S. Coleman
Opportunities
Insofar
Only
Schools
Reduce
His
Child
Dependence
Social
Successful
Origins
My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.
Janet Yellen
Inflation
Other
Variables
Rising
Insofar
Only
Output
Prices
Bottom
Bottom Line
React
Employment
Policy
Houses
Line
Affect
Goal
Bank
Central
Should
Monetary
Assets
Monetary Policy
My job when I'm acting in a movie is very limited to playing a role. I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together.
Jesse Eisenberg
Me
Together
Job
Somebody
Way
Insofar
Only
Putting
Limited
Very
Role
Interacting
Movie
Movies
Them
Skill
Acting
Evaluating
Aware
Things
Watch
Playing
Set
It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.
Jim Carrey
Me
You
Long
OK
Recognition
Insofar
Long Process
Along
Leap
Because
Always
Came
Been
Truman
Goes
Process
Show
Career
Appreciate
Evil is important for us to look at, in my opinion, only insofar as it makes us look at our own actions and make us wonder, 'Am I participating in some kind of human evil that I really should stop doing?'
John Carroll Lynch
Evil
Important
Own
Our
Kind
Some
Insofar
Only
Participating
Look
Make
Makes
Opinion
Am
Doing
Wonder
Human
Stop
In My Opinion
Us
Really
Should
Actions
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
John Hodgman
Just Be
Research
Possible
Insofar
Facts
Also
Does
Fake
Just
Haphazard
Interesting
Require
Creating
Measure
Need
Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved.
Jordan Peterson
Buy
You
Constitution
Our
Those
Evolved
Darwinian
Insofar
Both
Physiological
Physiology
Unsuccessful
Obviously
Account
Accounts
Behaviors
Processes
Us
Successful
Product
Theory
Mechanism
As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions.
Lloyd Blankfein
Work
Champion
People
Job
Big
Ambition
Our
Our People
Kind
Ability
Able
Insofar
Environment
Feel
Comfortable
Big Company
Work Environment
CEO
Fulfill
Interests
Company
Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
Louis Kronenberger
Today
People
Anxiety
Unpleasant
Disturbing
Insofar
Answer
Answers
Want
Means
Many
Away
Honest
Soft
The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.
Mark Leibovich
Possible
Insofar
Pursuit
Noble
Very
Even
Washington
I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.
Mercedes McCambridge
Love
Love Is
Insofar
Only
Feel
Know
Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.
Moses Mendelssohn
God
Nature
Man
Church
Convictions
State
Relations
Latter
Object
Insofar
Both
Between
Well
Former
Actions
Based
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