Until we have a natural, that is, a conscientious world, it cannot be known by experience what natural law will do for… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times… — Zhuge Liang Copy Share Image
Women age more in company because they have more relationships. Men have buddies. They have acquaintances, they have comrades. Friends as women… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so… — Diodorus Siculus Copy Share Image
I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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“Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.… — Seneca Copy Share Image
When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
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I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will… — Matthew Hale Copy Share Image
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Several of my young acquaintances are in their graves who gave promise of making happy and useful citizens and there is no… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
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And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues,… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
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I like LA. LA is cool, but it ain't like home. Atlanta is home. All my friends are here, I grew up… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
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You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
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There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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