Andrew Hacker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.
-- Andrew Hacker

#Wise #Witty #Thinking
Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.
-- Andrew Hacker

#Racism #Able #Civil Rights
Theyâ€™ll be black because thatâ€™s the way theyâ€™re seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Donâ€™t hold your breath.
-- Andrew Hacker

#Black #Berries #Woods
Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.
-- Andrew Hacker

#Boys #Needs #Bad Boy
They’ll be black because that’s the way they’re seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Don’t hold your breath.
-- Andrew Hacker

#Black #Berries #Woods

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books both true, Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov'd and loving me.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

Andrew Hacker famous quotes

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