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No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts

Love, Work, Future

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James

Good, Experience, Feeling

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Whatever, Question, Less

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts

Future, Made, Living

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
George Jean Nathan

Success, Born, Cynicism

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.
Jimmy Page

Character, Person, Different

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
Henry A. Kissinger

American, Principles, Policy

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
Simone Weil

Respect, Spring, Acting

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Tommy Smothers

Ideas, Listen, Censorship

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
Christopher Hitchens

History, Conception

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.
Michael Nesmith

Small, Economic, Return

When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
Tori Amos

Live, Play, Song

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.
Georg Solti

Alone, Hate, Important

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Susan Sontag

Keep, Alive, Rules

The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'why not?'
Jeff Bezos

Good, Business, Why

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Men, Idea, Worth

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
David Ogilvy

Life, Good, Best

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.
Rick Warren

Nothing, Country, Place

I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
David Attenborough

Balance, Denial, Growth

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
Dean Koontz

True, Evil, Away

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.
Antonio Banderas

Movies, Human, Everything

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
Archibald Alexander

Heart, Evil, Apology

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
Tracey Emin

Truth, Experience, Judge

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
Maya Lin

Thought, Artists, Necessary

Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
Andrea Jung

Beauty, Around, Another

I enjoy the speed of fashion. I love doing different things and I think I still have something valid to say in fashion.
Tom Ford

Love, Different, Enjoy

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.
Peace Pilgrim

Future, Spiritual, Research

I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character.
David Mitchell

Character, Book, Style

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
Andrew Wiles

Today, Date, Greeks

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
Carlos Salinas

Peace, Today, Longer

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