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There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work.… — William McFee
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. — John Haggai
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried… — Claude M. Bristol
Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of… — Derek Bok
The cause of the six-sided shape of a snowflake is none other than that of the ordered shapes of plants and of numerical constants; and… — Johannes Kepler
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are… — Benjamin Haydon
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those… — Terry Eagleton
I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties. — Fernando Pessoa
I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of… — David Horowitz
Military weapons are the means used by the Sage to punish violence and cruelty, to give peace to troublous times, to remove difficulties and dangers,… — Sima Qian
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's… — Marshall McLuhan
The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted… — James Joyce
Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation. — Robert Green Ingersoll
All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which… — Stephen Spender
Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in… — Gustave Courbet
When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all… — James McCosh
Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of… — Herbert Read
Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them… — William Melmoth
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. — Robert Genn
I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to… — Theodore Roosevelt
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. — James Madison
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold… — William Makepeace Thackeray
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full… — Mary Howitt
I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very… — Carl Sagan
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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