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A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread.
— Dionysius of Halicarnassus
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In an organization of any significant size, the executives cannot create the future single-handedly. They must develop the enterprise in a constellation of teams within…
— Karl Albrecht
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The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his…
— Elijah Muhammad
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I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I…
— Damon Hill
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It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole…
— Gardner Murphy
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey…
— Louis Agassiz
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We do not draw conclusions with our eyes, but with our reasoning powers, and if the whole of the rest of living nature proclaims with…
— August Weismann
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A man's free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power…
— Augustus Toplady
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a…
— Louis Agassiz
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It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good…
— Gertrude B. Elion
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general view of the…
— Louis Agassiz
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How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No…
— Walter Russell
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Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot…
— Mark the Evangelist
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The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that…
— Jennifer Edwards
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And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.
— John E. Hines
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You love simply because you cannot help it.
— Kim Anderson
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Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment in criticism of…
— Kenny Smith
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely…
— Raymond Chandler
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Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.
— Robert Henri
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