#confirm

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I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.


Lawrence Durrell


#reading #reality #escape

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.


Tacitus


#delay #falsehood #haste #inspection #truth

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.


Stephen Breyer


#confirmed #control #democratic #effort #electoral

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#confirms #destroys #nature #speculation #time

There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.


Patrick Leahy


#bring #concurrently #confirmed #court #general

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.


Lewis Mumford


#confirms #course #democracies #different #handicap

But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.


Dee Dee Myers


#bills #both #champion #confirms #conflict

I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.


Harry Oppenheimer


#always #confirm #development #economic #economic development

Whether the ice caps melt, or expand - whatever happens - the anthropogenic global warming theorists claim it confirms their theory. A perfect example of a pseudo-science like astrology.


Frank Tipler


#caps #claim #confirms #example #expand

I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation.


Javier Cuadros


#colleagues #confirms #consensus #curiously #decreasing