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- Almost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing…
- The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted…
- Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted…
- I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of…
- Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.
- That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be a mother of…
- Rebecca was a busy liar in her distinguished old age, reinventing her past for gullible biographers.
- The metaphor of the melting pot is unfortunate and misleading. A more accurate analogy would be a salad bowl, for, though the salad is an…
- May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice or virtue... In…
- We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we…
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- Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One… — Adam Braun
- The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world.… — Samuel Johnson
- To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough. — Alec Baldwin
- Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. — Ambrose Bierce
- If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it… — Arthur C. Clarke
- Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth;… — Laozi
- What is Moral Courage? It is the ability to distinguish right from wrong and having so distinguished it, be prepared to say… — Sam Manekshaw
- It would be more honourable to our distinguished ancestors to praise them in words less, but in deeds to imitate them more. — Horace Mann