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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell

Respect, Opinion, Keep

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.
Jim Carrey

Long, Career, Show

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Daniel Berrigan

Revolution, Heal, Promised

Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
John Hodgman

Fake, Research, Possible

I can only know what love is insofar as I can feel it.
Mercedes McCambridge

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.
Arthur Eddington

Body, State, Rest

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
Walter Jon Williams

Help, Find, Audience

Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.
J. William Fulbright

Legal, Law, Means

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
Anne Enright

Happy, Since, Writer

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality.
Gustav Heinemann

Reality, Big, Secret

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
Paul Ricoeur

Hope, Death, Living

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
James S. Coleman

Successful, Child, Social

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
Evelyn Underhill

Important, Feeling, Direction

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.
Louis Kronenberger

Today, Away, Honest

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
Bill Kristol

Work, Real, Said

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
Chris Marker

Politics, History, Present

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.
Moses Mendelssohn

Nature, God, Between

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
Nelson Algren

Love, Today, Him

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.
Kenneth Burke

Sense, Idea, Fall

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.
Pierre Bourdieu

Between, Violence, Both

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