#reckon

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#bring #cancer #cause #classic #discovered

I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#because #evil #frightening #i #i think

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping. ↗

— Gaylord Perry

#chocolate #everything #i #i tried #old

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. ↗

— Leopold Von Ranke

#contemporary #contemporary world #does #future #high

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with. ↗

— Nick Rhodes

#force #gotten #had #mtv #reckoned

Stupid bitch,' Tori muttered. 'oh let's take the necromancer with the superpowers to the cemetery. Of course you aren't going to raise the dead, you silly girl. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#reckoning #tori #stupidity

Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things. ↗

— Aeschylus

#does #itself #man #reckon #self-will

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#all things #belief #enough #good #life

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#attempt #awkward #cradle #cure #every

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#brain #count #easiest #fact #how