Best Eminently Quotes
50 Eminently quotes by 47 unique authors
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What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for many…
— Caridad Svich
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That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments…
— Charles Babbage
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Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.
— Thomas Brooks
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The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of…
— William Godwin
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I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always…
— Adam Baldwin
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No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted…
— Frederic Farrar
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Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.
— Preet Bharara
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A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all…
— James Gibbons
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Far too many doctors-many of them excellent physicians-commit suicide each year; one recent study concluded that, until quite recently, the United States lost annually the…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
— J. Paul Getty
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[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
— Jules Verne
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It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will…
— John Calvin
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Although emotionally delicate and eminently bruisable, teenagers are short on empathy. That comes later in life, if it comes at all.
— Stephen King
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...I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there…
— Charles Darwin
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... many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet…
— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
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But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it…
— George Haven Putnam
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The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source;…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but…
— Samuel Johnson
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CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its…
— Ambrose Bierce
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His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has…
— Henry David Thoreau
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