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The company continues to believe that these claims are specious and lack scientific merit, however, as the bankruptcy court recognized, resolving these cases in the tort system would take decades and impose significant costs on LTL and the system. – Erik Haas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is a specious attempt to smear an organization that has done nothing other than insist on fair debates where facts and the truth are respected. – Dan Moulthrop	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The timing of this charge, on the eve of Tish James ' announcing Tish James ' run for Governor, is highly suspect and should give all of us pause that the heavy hand of politics is behind this decision, we expect clear-headed people will make better decisions going forward, but should this case move forward we are prepared to vigorously defend the Governor and challenge every aspect of the specious, inconsistent and uncorroborated allegations made against him. – Rita Glavin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors & people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school & think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along & told them they had to earn a living.” – Buckminster Fuller	added by anonymous 8 years ago
These thieves were not sophisticated criminals, as evidenced by the fact that two of the paintings were cut out of their frames, the significant value of the stolen artwork seems to have elevated the status of the thieves to master criminals but that's a specious assumption. – Geoff Kelly	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires. – Bernard Mandeville	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. – Don Barthelme	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The company continues to believe that these claims are specious and lack scientific merit, however, as the bankruptcy court recognized, resolving these cases in the tort system would take decades and impose significant costs on LTL and the system.

– Erik Haas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a specious attempt to smear an organization that has done nothing other than insist on fair debates where facts and the truth are respected.

– Dan Moulthrop

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The timing of this charge, on the eve of Tish James ' announcing Tish James ' run for Governor, is highly suspect and should give all of us pause that the heavy hand of politics is behind this decision, we expect clear-headed people will make better decisions going forward, but should this case move forward we are prepared to vigorously defend the Governor and challenge every aspect of the specious, inconsistent and uncorroborated allegations made against him.

– Rita Glavin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors & people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school & think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along & told them they had to earn a living.”

– Buckminster Fuller

added by anonymous
8 years ago

These thieves were not sophisticated criminals, as evidenced by the fact that two of the paintings were cut out of their frames, the significant value of the stolen artwork seems to have elevated the status of the thieves to master criminals but that's a specious assumption.

– Geoff Kelly

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.

– Bernard Mandeville

added by anonymous
9 years ago

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

– Don Barthelme

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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