quotes about Conceded

last updated: November 28, 2023

The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

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The learned are not agreed as to the time when the Gospel of John was written; some dating it as early as the year 68, others as late as the year 98; but it is generally conceded to have been written after all the others.
-- Simon Greenleaf

Source : Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.27, Kregel Publications

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“Fundamental rights are not a given today. We have to protect them.”
“Every indication is that the Sudanese government will be defining it as an Arab, Muslim country. But there are also a lot of Christians and a lot of people, like the Nuba, who are not Arab. And that is why it is going to be problematic that Sudan will be defined in this way.”
“Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesnâ€™t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -Â- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesnâ€™t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesnâ€™t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.”

Source : "Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist" by Ricky Gervais, blogs.wsj.com. December 19, 2010.
“It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression”
“I get up every day and work, regardless of if I have a job or not.”
“I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left.”

Source : "Cary Grant is puzzled because you have No Time for Laughs" by Robert Ottaway in Picturegoer magazine, January 4, 1958.
“He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.”
“The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.”
“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.”

Source : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”
“Labor is the handmaid of religion.”