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Endurance is often the best indicator of validity & value
What has validity is your living, not what happens tomorrow.
But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
Authenticity is about where it comes from; validity is about whether it works.
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.
To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.
It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
Skeptics question the validity of a particular claim by calling for evidence to prove or disprove it.
I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
This idea that somehow or another, every idea on its face, because it's an idea, has some validity is ludicrous.
Because the more you engage with someone who is spreading untruths, the more validity you give to those untruths.
I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.
My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.
I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.
This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
Anybody who questions the validity of the Constitution, whether it works in the modern era, should never be president.
God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!
All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
We all need somebody to say, 'I love you. I see you. And I'm not going to give up on you.' Everybody has validity. Everybody has a purpose.
A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.
All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.
If you are born black, and you don't accept your natural status as a victim, then the validity of your blackness is immediately called into question.
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.
I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for movies to leave people with a sense of hope.
Our young people - and adults - should be aware that considerable dissent exists in the scientific world regarding the validity of molecules-to-man evolution.
It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer.
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.
There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.
Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.
The historic sea changes that have taken place in our country's rural areas are clear proof of the validity and vitality of the socialist rural theses advanced by President Kim Il Sung.
I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.
It really does not matter whether one believes a mystical entity created the universe 5,000 or 10,000 million years ago - both are equally irrational, unsubstantiated claims of no fundamental validity.
All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.
There's a security, a validity of knowing that it's legal. It's hard to put into words. It's just a feeling, I guess - something about saying vows in front of the people around you who love and support you.
My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.
To show a different side on 'Love & Hip Hop' and bring some validity to it and not just be ratchet, messy or whatever the case may be, it was cool to be that guy, not just from a fan standpoint but an artist standpoint.
Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?
A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
I think I have met nearly all the Laureates in Economics. Among the few I haven't met, I suppose I'd most like to meet Ronald Coase because of his legendary power to persuade his colleagues of the validity of the Coase Theorem.