Unequivocal Quotes - Page 2

• The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Skills, People, Luck

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• We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism.

  Antonio Damasio

  Perception, Mind, Links

  "Self Comes To Mind". Interview with Jonah Lehrer, www.wired.com. November 8, 2010.

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• The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.

  Keith O'Brien

  Teaching, Reality, Men

  "Same-sex marriage: Scotland urged to resist Catholic church campaign" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2012.

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• To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.

  Ernst Mayr

  Issues, Criticism, Heuristics

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• Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.

  Alan Keyes

  White, People, House

  "New barbarians". mobile.wnd.com. May 6, 2000.

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• I believe it is of particular importance in our day, when Satan is raging in the hearts of men in so many new and subtle ways, that our choices and decisions be made carefully, consistent with the goals and objectives by which we profess to live. We need unequivocal commitment to the commandments and strict adherence to sacred covenants. When we allow rationalizations to prevent us from temple endowments, worthy missions, and temple marriage, they are particularly harmful. It is heartbreaking when we profess belief in these goals yet neglect the everyday conduct required to achieve them.

  Quentin L. Cook

  Believe, Heart, Commitment

  "Choose Wisely". Quentin L. Cook’s address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2014.

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• Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.

  Tom Peters

  Support, Improvement, Pursuit

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• Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reality, Hypocrisy, Spokes

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• One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed."

  Quentin Crisp

  Country, Travel, America

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• Once you make the unequivocal internal commitment to do something - when you absolutely know this is the time and the place to act - the world around you will shift in all sorts of apparently miraculous ways to make it happen.

  Sarah Susanka

  Determination, Commitment, World

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• A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, at any time, under identical conditions, the same certain and unequivocal phenomena that can always be confirmed.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Science, Certain, Should

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• Warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Past, Years, Average

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• The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early discontents, I expect that a just, dispassionate and steady conduct, will at length rally to a proper system the great body of our country. Unequivocal in principle, reasonable in manner, we shall be able I hope to do a great deal of good to the cause of freedom & harmony.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Character, Rocks

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.468

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• We are even more confident that when President Goodluck Jonathan returns in 2015, women would be talking about 50 percent, no longer 35 percent. As we give him unequivocal, undiluted, unreserved and unlimited support and as we march with him to 2015, PDP women will reach the promised land.

  Kema Chikwe

  Good Luck, Talking, Land

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• Would you look at that body language? Legs crossed towards each other. That is an unequivocal sex invite.

  Cher

  Sex, Clueless, Looks

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• In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are now heading with such certainty. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy but in those immutable precepts which underlie the Ten Commandments.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Philosophy, Voting, Political

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.130, Turner Publishing Company

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• It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Forgiving, Syntax, Phrases

  Richard K. Morgan (2003). “Altered Carbon”, Del Rey

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• Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal “no”. As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms.

  Fatou Bensouda

  War, Political, Criminals

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• The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Men, Ends

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.215, Courier Corporation

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• For as long as (the Founding Fathers of this nation) lived and led, they acknowledged the hand of the Almighty in the affairs of this republic. Our coinage and our currency carry the national motto. It simply says, 'In God We Trust.' I believe this is the foundation upon which this nation was established, an unequivocal trust in the power of the Almighty to guide and defend us.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Father, Believe, Hands

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• Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches of the silvery leafed tree beside the creek. Underneath the lazy sensuality of a luxurious stretch from toes to nose I felt the strong unequivocal demand of my blood. I hugged myself for a moment watching the grey light yield to dawn through half-closed eyes.

  Lucy Irvine

  Strong, Eye, Night

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• The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The variation we are seeing in temperature or rainfall is double the rate of the average. That suggests that we are going to have more droughts, we are going to have more floods, we are going to have more sea surges and we are going to have more storms. These are the sort of changes that are going to affect us in quite a short timescale

  John Beddington

  Sea, Government, Average

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• Sable hair bisected his pecs and arrowed down to the straight and unequivocal statement of his returned interest. Forcing my gaze to his face, I said, "I really don't think we have time for that." "You know that, and I know that, but HE doesn't believe it." "Believe it," I told HIM. J.X.'s mouth tugged into one of those heart-stopping smiles. "Maybe you should whisper in his ear.

  Josh Lanyon

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.

  Dan Quayle

  Children, Father, Character

  Remarks to Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco, Cal., 19 May 1992

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• We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal. We wish to reassert the picture plane. We are for flat forms because they destroy illusion and reveal truth.

  Mark Rothko

  Simple, Impact, Expression

  Mark Rothko, Miguel López-Remiro (2006). “Writings on Art”, p.36, Yale University Press

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