#grounds

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars. ↗

— Bill Bruford

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I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps. ↗

— Caleb Carr

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Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#believe #believing #everybody #far #good

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#belief #brought #corners #faiths #his

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds. ↗

— James Dean

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Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#among #backgrounds #common #contest #different

If you ask anyone around the cricket grounds, they will say I always sign loads of autographs and thank the ladies for lunch and try to behave in the right way. ↗

— Shane Warne

#anyone #around #ask #autographs #behave

At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress. ↗

— Steve Womack

#complex #congress #day #end #end of the day

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit. ↗

— John Green

#also #bit #feel #ground #grounds