Oversimplification Bias Quotes & Sayings

Here kitty, kitty. Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.
Dodge — Frank Beddor

It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good. — Ravi Zacharias

As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness. — J. Budziszewski

The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings. — Robert Bork

Does love still exist if you can't say it? If you can't admit it? — Julie Murphy

I am retired from all my official roles, but I am still very active. I have close relationships at the U.N. I don't have any role at the U.N, but I'm still quite cooperative with a number of U.N. activities, in particular to China and that region. — Maurice Strong

Black New Yorkers' distressing personal accounts of poverty and unemployment, inadequate housing, white supremacy and state-sanctioned violence politicized St. Clair, leading her to become one of New York's staunchest yet most unlikely voices against urban inequity. — LaShawn Harris

It might have been supposed that Freddy, whose intellect was not of the first order, would have found it impossible to grasp the gist of an extremely tangled and discursive story, but once more the possession of three volatile and excitable sisters stood him in good stead. — Georgette Heyer

A pie?" Now she just sounded dubious. "Was it an evil pie?" "Yeah. Yeah, it was. — Seanan McGuire

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant. — Janet Jackson

There are men, who can be turned on by a stiff breeze, but I cannot stop the wind, and it is wrong for a woman to be held responsible for a man's problems. — Emily Dixon

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. — Mortimer Adler

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be. — Jim Horning