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It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.


Kim Campbell


#because #been #clarified #federal #governments

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.


Tony Campolo


#any #doubt #enlightenment #explanation #freud

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.


Jonathan Carroll


#cold #despite #everything #few #guaranteed

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.


John Deacon


#apartheid #beaches #bit #buses #i

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.


James Thurber


#any #breeding #burgundy #domestic #i

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.


Dave Eggers


#doing #every #expectation #get #grew

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.


Julius Erving


#better off #change #ignorant #life #most

For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.


David Fincher


#around #been #deals #everybody #financed

I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means.


Ian Williams


#hubris #i #i think #keep #lot

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.


Thom Yorke


#i #just #kids #me #might