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- The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is…
- We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is…
- Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and…
- Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a few days (sometimes…
- Let each citizen contribute their natural talents or acquired skills to the greater benefit of all in the community.
- His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed that he should…
- Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.
- An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.
- A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right…
- I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so…
- Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.
- The worst feeling in the world hands down is hopelessness, although it is not the only bad feeling. Other bad feelings include death of a…
- Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
- Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.
- Love is an acquired feeling, and must be held tight; For if you push my love aside, I might not be complete tonight
- Life is not quotes and related quotes about life is not real life. Quotes are words that seldom lay in the field of inspiration. Inspiration…
- The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic…
- Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-class parents have not acquired this…
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- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on… — Franklin P. Adams
- The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is… — H. Rap Brown
- Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited… — Smedley Butler
- I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
- Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie
- Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. — Willa Cather
- Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired… — Lord Chesterfield
- Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. — Lord Chesterfield
- To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's… — Kate Chopin
- Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it,… — Emile M. Cioran