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In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.


Daniel Goleman

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TOM DELAY People keep dismissing tonight as unimportant; I don't and I know Steve doesn't. We have got to brus...
DAVID GOLD It is very inconvenient for patients.
WILLIAM POWANDA Expectations are too dire. People are somewhat dismissing these companies' stronghold over the consu...
GREGG MOSKOWITZ It's inconvenient, no question about it, but it's also an adventure.
JOE BAILEY But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER The gun lobby finds waiting periods inconvenient. You have only to ask my husband how inconvenient h...
SARAH BRADY People don't like having to go to the polls, it's inconvenient. They don't like standing in line.
KRYSTY MARIN There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
DENIS DIDEROT People are addicted to search. There are lots of times when Internet access is inconvenient.
BRAD HUSICK But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
VICTOR HUGO The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' fa...
MAX WEBER True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.
KIERA CASS What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understand...
ELIZABETH GILBERT But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. - George Colman ("The ...
GEORGE COLMAN ("THE YOUNGER") It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
MARK TWAIN Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
MILTON BERLE It's inconvenient, no question. But it's also an adventure.
JOE BAILEY To suddenly care for someone is inconvenient when they're already gone.
BASIL TONG (湯鈞庭　ベーゼル) Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.
DASHANNE STOKES Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it...
JACKSON BROWNE Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
SYDNEY SMITH Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient
SYDNEY SMITH for devotees of doctrine tended to fall in love with their own righteousness, ignoring inconvenient ...
JON MEACHAM If it's more costly or more inconvenient with heavier traffic on the freeway, people will make the s...
ANDREW CHESLEY Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
MILTON BERLE It is inconvenient, and we regret that, but it shouldn't last longer than a few more days.
DAVE CAPLAN It's going to be inconvenient, you have the eastern part of the city from here. With these hotels, y...
JIM BRYSON The dismissing of other viewpoints happens so quickly and is so subtle that it is very tough to addr...
SEAN O'KEEFE Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children....
IYANLA VANZANT Remember, you are where you're supposed to be at any given point and time of the day. The people aro...
CELESTINE L. GRAY Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
LAWRENCE SUMMERS 'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geog...
G. WILLOW WILSON Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don...
DICK FRANCIS That deep longing that you keep dismissing as impractical, may be the very thing your soul is callin...
RENAE A. SAUTER It's disappointing to hear from some (states) that it's inconvenient or too difficult to implement.
JEFF LUNGREN It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to...
LEWIS CARROLL I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writ...
STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES If facts are inconvenient, well, damn those who live and work with facts.
DAVID BRIN It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
JOSH BILLINGS It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient
JOSH BILLINGS The system we have in place worked just the way it should. It was a little inconvenient.
CAROL PETERS It will make tax controversies more expensive, more intrusive and more inconvenient for taxpayers.
KENT CONRAD It's very hard to step into a job when people are just dismissing you as a pretty face, and sayi...
JULIAN MCMAHON We must never ignore threats to our country simply because it is unpopular, inconvenient, or difficu...
TROY J. GAINEY I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other ...
CANDACE BUSHNELL I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other ...
SEX AND THE CITY A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's...
ANNETTE CURTIS KLAUSE The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.
CATHRYN LOUIS The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwe...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often fou...
BERT WILLIAMS It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
JOSH BILLINGS The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But ...
INGMAR BERGMAN It was not a long delay, but at that hour, it was inconvenient, and we regret that.
CAROL SKORNICKA Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
GLEN COOK Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
LARRY SUMMERS An inconvenient truth is still truth, nonetheless, whether you accept it or don't. The best thing yo...
DEBORAH SIMPSON This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one...
CAPTAIN J A HADFIELD This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one ...
CAPTAIN J. A. HADFIELD Oh for craps sake. You're not dying again, are you? It's seriously inconvenient when you do that." -...
P.C. CAST The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pa...
LOIS LOWRY It's very hard and inconvenient. By the time you get where you're going, you're all sweaty and stink...
BARBARA CLARK Relying solely on real estate-based savings may be dangerous because this type of saving can be illi...
BENJAMIN TAL Relying solely on real estate-based savings may be dangerous because this type of saving can be illi...
BENJAMIN TAL Who's going to pay $150 for a Bluetooth card when it's not that inconvenient to pay much less and us...
PETER FIRSTBROOK Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'matern...
JESSICA VALENTI that the department would hold up releasing a study that is scientific simply because its conclusion...
JAMES CRAWFORD He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or ...
WALTER LIPPMANN I've said the election of Obama has made the hustler less relevant. People took it in a way that...
JAY-Z In reality, it reflects an attempt by the Bush administration to exercise unchecked power without th...
BILL GOODMAN A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, ...
WALTER LIPPMANN But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient ...
KELLY CUTRONE A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must b...
ARNOLD BENNETT You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because...
MICHAEL CRICHTON Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyr...
CHINA MIéVILLE The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not abs...
JUSTICE ANTHONY KENNEDY The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not abso...
ANTHONY KENNEDY It was not a good welcome back present. It was inconvenient to not be able to take a shower. I walke...
DAVID MCKENZIE Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fi...
PAUL DAVIES The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inc...
HILARY MANTEL Daniel he can make people...he can shake 'em, he can get around them and he can finish.
JOE FAVERO If you are able to say'no' when it is convenient and inconvenient, and you can control your flesh an...
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to th...
RICHARD SCHICKEL To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Politics is about spinning falsehoods on your opponent that are your truths. (10/2013)
ALBERT J VIERLING Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We’d all thought nothing of it befor...
STEPHENIE MEYER If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best peop...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and on...
ARNOLD BENNETT I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Golem...
HOWARD GARDNER I know that trying to begin a new habit may be uncomfortable, inconvenient, or challenging. However,...
SUSAN C. YOUNG As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view,...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH The administration must act promptly to ensure that the central premise of the Affordable Care Act i...
JOHN DELANEY You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a cou...
JESSE VENTURA (Doublethink) to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary a...
GEORGE ORWELL I was very impressed with Davis Guggenheim's 'An Inconvenient Truth.' He's inspired ...
PETER BERG All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not ...
NAPOLEON HILL You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a ...
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DANIEL ESPINOSA The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret...
DANIEL ELLSBERG I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
DANIEL ELLSBERG It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I hav...
DANIEL ELLSBERG President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
DANIEL ELLSBERG Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli...
DANIEL ELLSBERG My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, an...
DANIEL ELLSBERG We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millio...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers tha...
DANIEL ELLSBERG In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga...
DANIEL EK This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Brun...
DANIEL EK The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want...
DANIEL EK Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that...
DANIEL EK I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much c...
DANIEL EK In order for a service to be social, you've really got to start from the ground up. The fact tha...
DANIEL EK With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
DANIEL EK People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
DANIEL EK There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal...
DANIEL EK I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
DANIEL EK It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening t...
DANIEL EK At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your ...
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