Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities.
Edgar Allan Poe
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San Francisco has always been a place apart, and a center of eccentric and independent thinkers. And what we started here, I don't think could have grown up anywhere else. You can create a social context in which culture can be created, but you can't directly create the culture.
Larry Harvey
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
Harriet Martineau
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.
Theodor Reik
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called 'scientific' mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
Cynthia Ozick
It's a unique distribution strategy. They're really out-of-the-box thinkers.
Kirk Cameron
These are our big thinkers in the world. This is a highly regarded group. People selected for this group means that they are respected by their peers and by the White House.
Diane Jones
I like Morrie a lot. Like him, I'm a teacher and I'm also Jewish. For some in the academic world, sociology is not considered to be a rigorous science. That may be true, but Morrie must have been a very charismatic guy even if he wasn't the deepest of thinkers. The genius of his insights and how he refined the things he learned in life and passed them along are really what this story is all about.
Harold Gould
Alaska's contribution to America's freedom isn't just the oil we provide or the food we harvest from the seas or our location which is the best in the world for our military. It is more than that. It begins with the fact that Alaskans are free-thinkers.
Lisa Murkowski
The practice of medicine is a thinker's art the practice of surgery a plumber's.
Martin H. Fischer
No, absolutely not. What I'm hoping is that they can find information to help them become better thinkers.
Becky Keene
Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
Alain De Botton
Everywhere, unthinking mobs of 'independent thinkers' wield tired cliches like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question 'enlightened' dogma. ... Cliches begin arguments, they don't settle them.
Jonah Goldberg
This event positions our city and state as a place that nurtures its creative culture, opens itself to new knowledge and connects to cutting-edge thinkers.
Jerry Abramson
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
Anthony Burgess
We are pleased to announce that President Clinton will be sharing his perspective on the challenges facing the healthcare industry at the forum. Our vision for the Perspectives in Healthcare Forum is to bring together leading thinkers across the healthcare spectrum to begin a dialogue that addresses the social and business aspects of taking good care of people.
Gary E. Holdren
We think the feature highlights some of the Post's most interesting thinkers and personalities.
Hal Straus
They're out-of-the-box thinkers, like us.
Angie Watson
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
Theodor Reik
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
It showed they were hasty thinkers.
Maureen Cooney
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
Norman Tebbit
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
There is a dollop of truth in virtually every perspective. I think we are all better served by hearing from as many voices as we can. It makes us better thinkers.
Thomas Morgan
Understanding how to better develop software that is free from security defects is fundamental. Only by collaboration between top thinkers representing all stakeholders can we solve this problem. The Secure Software Forum is a tremendous step towards that solution and ISSA is excited to be supporting these efforts.
Dave Cullinane
Reading is so important. It teaches kids to be analytical thinkers. If we turn our kids off from the very beginning, we're going to lose that.
Jon Scieszka
The Stockholm project involved a collaborative effort by some of IBM's most talented divisions across the globe and can be replicated in cities around the world. IBM's ability to harness innovative thinkers around the world enables a synergy that combines insight with sophisticated technologies, bringing added value business engagements such as the Stockholm system.
Peggy Kennelly
We wanted to bring interesting thinkers to the public.
Kitty Boone
Do not be afraid of being free thinkers! If you think strongly enough you will be forced by science to the belief in God, which is the foundation of all religion. You will find science not antagonistic but helpful to religion.
Lord Kelvin
During the past 20 years, the program's long line of prominent award recipients represents American ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit. Ernst & Young is proud to recognize some of the nation's finest business thinkers for their remarkable leadership and successful accomplishments.
Phil Anderson
If they start doing this as a freshman, think of how skilled they will be and what great thinkers they will be.
George Wolfe
The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.
Lord Patrick Devlin
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar R. Fiedler
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