"A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can……" — Bruce Catton
"A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence."
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21 Quotes by Bruce Catton
Bruce Catton has 21 quotes on this site.
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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be…
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And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines,…
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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the…
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The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town…
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In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip…
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Early youth is a baffling time
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Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the…
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I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was…
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Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.
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A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its…
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There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape…
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Beneath everything else, North and West, there ran a profound, unvoiced, almost subconscious conviction that the [American] nation was going…
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More Acute Quotes
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one of 154 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a…
— Lydia M. Child
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
— Leonard Cohen
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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is…
— Sun Tzu
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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of…
— Sigmund Freud
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
— Philip Yancey
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by…
— Hippocrates
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held…
— Baruch Spinoza
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I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching,…
— Jennifer Worth
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape…
— George Meredith
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
— Florence Nightingale
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