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Bias of Priene

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Bad men with smiles are the most dangerous kind.
CAMERON M. HAYDEN
I've found that most so-called sources are full of error and bias.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT
Bad men are full of repentance.
ARISTOTLE
They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For be...
SHAKESPEARE
They say, best men are molded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For bein...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a li...
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JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG ACTON
Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.
CRISS JAMI
Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.
TIM ALLEN
In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require pe...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS
Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable; it's also unbiblical.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men ap...
BUDDHA
Seagull you fly against the horizon Into a misty morning sun Seagull you must have known The shape o...
MEMBERS OF BAD COMPANY
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For bei...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The wise man carries his possessions within him.
BIAS
Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support t...
BIAS
Do not speak quickly; it is a sign of insanity.
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Good and bad men are less than they seem.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The traditional anti-fun feminist point of view is that of course men are bad, and they make women d...
TUCKER CARLSON
The most positive men are the most credulous.
ALEXANDER POPE
The most positive men are the most credulous.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
PATRICIA MCBRIDE
Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
ARISTOTLE
Why categorise people Are we products of our own bias and misery?
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I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we ha...
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It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad...
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I got an early education on how bad men and women can act. Most of those people were sucking the lif...
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Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.
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Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most differe...
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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Maybe Plum was right. There are no good men. Only different degrees of bad ones.
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For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your...
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To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa...
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
DIOGENES THE CYNIC
Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty.
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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STEPHANIE MILLS
Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.
WESLEY MORRIS
Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
HERACLITUS
Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions
JAMES MACKINTOSH
Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
The work of a few good men takes time to sink in and soak in than the work of the several bad men th...
APURVA GAGLANI
There are hundreds of good men in this business and hundreds of good women and there are some who ar...
LESLEY VISSER
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
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Most men are pretty comfortable spending for this kind of purchase.
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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest...
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The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest...
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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad g...
DAVID NIVEN
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
LEONARDO DAVINCI
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Men are most happy, when they are in nappies
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, ...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, bu...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not need laws at all, and bad men are made no better ...
DEMONAX THE CYNIC
I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in th...
SHERYL SANDBERG
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
DIOGENES
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized
BENJAMIN HAYDON
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
BENJAMIN HAYDON
Most films of this type are really bad, and ours is too good.
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When bad men conspire, good men should associate.
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Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad example...
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Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise a...
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Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise a...
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If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
KARL MARX
Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
JOHN KEEGAN
Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them
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VICTOR HUGO
Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks.
LAURA SWENSON
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
THOMAS PAINE
Bad pony-men! BOO!
RICK RIORDAN
All the King's Men. There are all sorts of awful rumors out there that the movie is really bad.
DREW KUNIN
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DON CHEADLE
I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.
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Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are un...
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Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by n...
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Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games...
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Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
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Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
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Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial.
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Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
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Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Jesus, as a mother you ga...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY
Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 For I seek not to under...
ANSELM OF CANTERBURY
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwell...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first tw...
GREGORY OF NYSSA
Business tomorrow.
ARCHIAS OF THEBES
For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to lea...
IRENAEUS OF LYONS
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it doe...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Holy poverty confounds cupidity and avarice and the cares of this world.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when y...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream...
THéRèSE OF LISIEUX
Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend t...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, eve...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment......
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
ANTIPHANES OF MACEDONIA
if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like ...
ZENO OF CITIUM
YHVH Is Love; Satan Is Pride
MONK OF YHVH
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
THERESE OF LISIEUX
You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slave...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
And all shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of things shall be exceeding well.
JULIAN OF NORWICH
God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
JULIAN OF NORWICH
If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not...
ISAAC OF NINEVEH
Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
If you understood him, it would not be God.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first scienc...
BION OF SMYRNA
The sinews of business (or state).
BION OF SMYRNA
Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 He said not Thou shalt not be tempested, th...
JULIANA OF NORWICH
Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song ...
JULIANA OF NORWICH
Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 I saw full surely in this and in all, that e...
JULIANA OF NORWICH
Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 If afore us were laid together all the pain...
JULIANA OF NORWICH
This is our Lord's will, ... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not trust ...
JULIANA OF NORWICH
Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: A...
JULIANA OF NORWICH
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER Its ground: God, by whose goodness ...
JULIANA OF NORWICH