Counterfactually Quotes

#1. government is legitimate not so much because it represents the 'general will', but because its policies are, ideally and counterfactually, the result of the public deliberation of all who are concerned by the decision

Frederic Vandenberghe

#2. The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#3. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.

Richard Dawkins

#4. When I see my work in a gallery I often wonder how I got to this point. Sometimes the process of making the work feels like a blur, and I look at the work and wonder how I actually made it.

Polixeni Papapetrou

#5. Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

Narendra Modi

#6. And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

#7. Catholic Church, expelled all the Jews,

Howard Zinn

#8. The visual team of 'Blade Runner' - one of the last big fantasy movies to be made without much computer graphics finery - worked directly for Scott, who sketched each of his prolific ideas on paper (they were called 'Ridley-grams').

Richard Corliss

#9. When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

Tommy Smothers

#10. With all respect to James Bond, a martini should be stirred, not shaken.

Kingsley Amis

#11. Oh, he was the sun burning bright and brittle And she was the moon shining back his light a little He was a shooting star She was softer and more slowly He could not make things possible But, she could make them holy.

Harry Chapin

#12. Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#13. The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.

Catharine Beecher