Top 23 Randomly Selected Quotes
#1. There are plenty of violent people, but for any randomly selected person today the chances of meeting a violent death at the hands of his or her fellow humans is lower now than it has ever been in human history.
Peter Singer
#2. Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out.
Robert Graves
#3. Our hearts have already been broken. Maybe I can help to heal hers, even if it means ripping mine to shreds when she leaves and I have to say good-bye.
Debra Doxer
#4. My show is constantly evolving ... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped ... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.
David Copperfield
#5. I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.
Roberto Cavalli
#6. They all knew borders no longer divided the world so much as ideologies.
James Rollins
#7. Film study was considered disgraceful by my father.
Ang Lee
#8. In a devastating critique, the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin once showed that if Terman had simply put together a randomly selected group of children from the same kinds of family backgrounds as the Termites - and
Malcolm Gladwell
#9. Bitch, I'm here to tell you that it's going to be all right. We'll get through this shit, motherfucker, just you wait.
David Sedaris
#10. The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.
Camille Paglia
#11. No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
Thomas Malthus
#12. I didn't see myself as the busty type. Too bad bodies are issued randomly, not selected to match your personality
Phoebe Kitanidis
#13. One day, scientists will overtake LIGHT and crash into the DARKNESS.
Paul McDermott
#14. The Japanese tend to be far more co-operative and docile and group-oriented. It would be easier to get the entire population of Tokyo to wear matching outfits than to get any two randomly selected Americans to agree on pizza toppings.
Dave Barry
#15. Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.
Sathya Sai Baba
#16. Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.
John Muir
#17. Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Michel Foucault
#19. We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?
Peter J. Carroll
#20. I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most Americans would be surprised to learn just how much better we are at gov't than our gov't.
Lawrence Lessig
#21. Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.
Charlotte Eriksson
#22. I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?
Lawrence Lessig
#23. Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.
Imran Khan
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