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- Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one… — Samuel Butler
- There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. — Stokely Carmichael
- Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer
- During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one… — Roderick Murchison
- The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can… — Carl von Clausewitz
- A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop… — Elias Canetti
- In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols… — John B. S. Haldane
- [T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to… — John Maynard Keynes