Diffused Quotes

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A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. — James Boswell
If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security. — Samuel Adams
The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it… — Rudolph Rummel
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which… — Michael Faraday
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in… — Walter Bagehot
Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being… — Plato
Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society. — Robert McNamara
There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come… — Bill Walsh
When all is complete deep in the teapot, when tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water, coloring and saturating it...then a glass… — Simonne Jacquemard
Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious… — John Calvin
Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused,… — Otto Weininger
Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get… — Robert Wyatt
Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred,… — M. Scott Peck
May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love,… — George Eliot
The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love play,… — Curt Sachs
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things.… — Roger Caillois
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of… — Leonardo da Vinci
I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have… — Henry David Thoreau
The market is ridiculously overcrowded with early stage investors. This results in a talent drain, where the best talent gets diffused and work for their… — Sean Parker

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