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No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
— Karl Popper
In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.
— Diane Garnick
life wasn't a fairy tale and there were instances when one couldn't have everything one wanted, not at the same time. As
— Kate Morton
Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
For this is one of those disheartening instances where truth requires full as much bolstering as error.
— Herman Melville
Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.
— Sheldon Vanauken
The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.
— Plutarch
I only travel with a carry-on suitcase in most instances.
— Brad Goreski
The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.
— Frederick Lenz
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
— John Hanning Speke
In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.
— Rudolf Arnheim
Who would be so cruel?"
"You ask this question after the Shoah? After countless instances of genocide? Human beings can be incredibly cruel. — Sylvain Reynard
"You ask this question after the Shoah? After countless instances of genocide? Human beings can be incredibly cruel. — Sylvain Reynard
Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
— William Hazlitt
However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.
— Criss Jami
While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.
— Steve Largent
In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.
— Stanislav Grof
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
— Hillary Clinton
In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
— Victor Wooten
The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.
— Susan Sontag
There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.
— Johan Huizinga
The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
— Jack Osbourne
Some instances in life call for humility. But, sometimes you need to be flat-out brazen when it comes to the desires of your heart.
— Nakia R. Laushaul
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.
— John Ruskin
The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.
— Marilynne Robinson
Mathematics is filled with such instances where it is important to regard one set as a subset of another.
— Richard Hammack
There are many instances when one person is enough to change the world.
— Stephen Richards
In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.
— David Hume
Only in rare instances and with rare individuals does there seem to be any guiding light from within.
— Theodore Dreiser
It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.
— Eleanor Farjeon
I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.
— Charles M. Schwab
A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.
— Francis Atterbury
How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.
— John Ashcroft
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.
— Mark Twain
History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.
— Fred Ritchin
There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.
— James Ponsoldt
In some instances, it may unfortunately be necessary for a Wife to seek outside employment, such as when the husband is dismembered or is dead.
— Margaret Dilloway
Both instances, sweet. Also stupid, which pretty much defined Evan: sweet and stupid.
— Sarah Beth Durst
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
— Aristotle.
In many instances, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to 'Until debt do us part'.
— Sam Ewing
Well, executive producer can mean anything in the world of Hollywood, sadly. It can be a bought title in many instances.
— Andrew Stanton
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Moreover, in those instances where the political success of a minority group has come first, the result has often been slower socioeconomic progress.
— Jason L. Riley
they are mystified by certain instances.
— William Carlos Williams
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
— Sidney Altman
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
— Mark Twain
The instances that second marriage move
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. — William Shakespeare
Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. — William Shakespeare
Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land', in most instances they're not even law.
— Sonia Sotomayor
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
— Trevor Nunn
It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.
— John Lyman Chatfield
Full of wise saws and modern instances.
— William Shakespeare
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance.
— Samuel Johnson
History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
— Will Durant
There are some few instances in which it is virtuous to disobey.
— Ann Radcliffe
I often question your actions, but rarely your reasoning. And this isn't one of those rare instances.
— Sherry Thomas
Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
— Abigail Adams
This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.
— Henry David Thoreau
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
— George Washington
In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.
— Charlotte Mary Yonge
We can get closer to the truth by negative instances, not by verification! It
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
I've been guilty myself, in many instances, of thinking, when some new exciting idea comes along, 'This can't be right.
— Paul Greengard