Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.
Quotes about excluding (16 Quotes)
I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
As a society we seem to be losing our ability to rationally debate complicated policy decisions. Secrecy aggravates the problem by excluding people from the debate, or by narrowing their frames of reference. Nothing less than the future of American democracy is at stake.
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
Given how concerned investors are in the media sector, Viacom's ability to generate 5 percent revenue growth excluding the film business illustrates why we think there is significant underlying value in the assets.
Most of the uptake in Xbox 360 will be driven mainly by demand from U. S., Europe and rest of Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, like Korea and Australia.
It's part of our community health and wellness program. There will be 10 fitness stations along the trail that will allow people to do low-impact exercises and anyone can use it, including children, the elderly and the physically challenged. We're not excluding anyone.
Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a spurt of brilliance. It is shot through with originality, verve, and-why not go all the way-genius. People love it, can't get enough of it, can't stop performing itand they are not wrong. For closing in on a half- century now, The Music Man has been performed continually, in every American city, town, and village, and in other parts of the world as well, not excluding Peking.
Our view is that the old consensus of 4 per share, which reflects analysts' current estimates of our entire business before the second-quarter action, is about the right estimate for our new continuing operations, excluding the special charges.
As promised, we delivered a very strong earnings-per-share (excluding nonrecurring items) performance in 1998, ... We did this in a year where not everything was going our way, which demonstrates our ability-and commitment-to tight management despite soft revenues in key markets.
The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.
In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.
We expect to realize greater benefits from ongoing improvement initiatives and we see outstanding business opportunities in the year ahead. We remain confident in our full year 2006 EPS outlook of 5.78-5.92, including the estimated (0.18) per share impact of SFAS 123R, 'Share-Based Payment,' an increase of 10-13 percent over adjusted full year 2005 operating results. Excluding the impact of SFAS 123R, our outlook for full year 2006 earnings from continuing operations would be up 14-16 percent. We expect Q1 2006 EPS of 1.18-1.22.
The underlying Mercedes margin excluding one-off items and provision releases was significantly weaker than expected. That was an area where the market was prepared for upside surprise.
So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.
These days in Arizona it's politics by vendetta. You read a bill (out of the Legislature) with the underlying notion of, 'Who are they out to get with this one' There is such a level of anger. There is very little public service that is selfless and about building. Almost all of it is about crushing, limiting and excluding.