Quotes About Sources

when I would account to myself for the birth of that passion, which afterwards ruled my destiny, I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.

Like Milton Friedman, I notice that 'business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the chief sources of danger.

class does not make people smarter; it produces a small group of people who are deluded about the sources of their good fortune and a large group of people who are deceived about the sources of their misfortune.

A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future.

Meanwhile, the splintering of the media and the emergence of conservative outlets meant voters were no longer reliant on Walter Cronkite to tell them what was true; instead, they could hew to sources that reinforced, rather than challenged, their political preferences.

If people want real information, they have to go beyond advertising to disinterested sources such as Consumer Reports.

these sources were not intending to present what we think of as historically accurate information; that's a modern imposition on these Gospels that they can't bear.

Where do any of the ancient sources speak of a divine man who was crucified as an atonement for sin? So far as I know, there are no parallels to this central Christian claim.

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

Production Mechanisms Production mechanism describes a class of mechanics that make a resource conveniently available to a player. These include sources that bring the resource directly into the player's hands, but they can also include special buildings, characters, or other facilities that gather resources from the landscape and make them available to the player.

Knowledge and error flow from the same mental sources; only success can tell one from the other.

No anonymous sources—a fact that will crush the national media.

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources.

This is one of the many paradoxes of happiness: we seek to control our lives, but the unfamiliar and the unexpected are important sources of happiness.

Item, I've read that there's not a single virgin to be found in your country, said the statesman. Where might you have read this? asked the Professor Antiquitatum. The good auctor Blefken says this. I wonder if the good auctor might not have misread his sources, said Arnaeus. The best auctores tell us that Icelandic girls remain chaste virgins up until they've had their seventh child, Your Benevolence.

I was taught that if you're going to study something, you must understand it deeply and be familiar with primary sources. But if you write a history of the whole world, you can't do this. That's the trade-off.

I think sometimes when trades are made the beginning of the season on paper, they look great. It just takes time. Sometimes the process by the media or outside influences or sources want it to be now. Sometimes it doesn't work that way.

Trust allows you to follow your feelings through your defenses to their sources, and to bring to the light of consciousness those aspects of yourself that resist wholeness, that live in fear.

Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.

WikiLeaks is a source protection organization. We are famous for never having exposed one of our sources over 10 years. That's why sources trust us and they come to us.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

Evils are to be traced to their sources, and struck at there. Like Barbary pirates, they are to be destroyed through the suppression of the state that sends them forth.

26. Caution about Instigators of Dissension: Division and disunion in society is created by elements that follow their doubts and pursue misdirected passions.  Such people solely rely on their personal opinions and vested interests rather than on reliable sources and consider their own judgment superior to that of their leader.[29]