Given Quotes
7676 Given quotes by 4565 unique authors
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No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude any concern for the animals…
— Peter Singer
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God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on…
— Anna Sewell
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For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet sufficiently enlightened to…
— Aldo Leopold
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A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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What makes these special Beaujolais attractive is the same thing that has always made Beaujolais attractive: the price. Given the insane prices of so many…
— Frank J. Prial
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Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a…
— Garry Kasparov
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If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.
— Unknown Author
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...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is…
— Martha Graham
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...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in…
— Seneca the Younger
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The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.
— Leo Tolstoy
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While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given…
— Erich Fromm
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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
— G. Stanley Hall
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How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
— Katherine Mansfield
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In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says "Mom! What's gayness? We had a teacher talking…
— Michele Bachmann
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Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by…
— Elias Lyman Magoon
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How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given them, is as…
— John Andreas Widtsoe
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If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly,…
— Gerald Heaney
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Reply implicitly upon the old, old gospel. You need no other nets when you fish for men; those your Master has given you are strong…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness and given the…
— Unknown Author
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These seven centers, these seven chakras Yoga and Tantra have talked about down the ages, are nothing but five knots in your body electric current.…
— Rajneesh
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The gift of the Holy Ghost, given to us when we are confirmed, gives us the ability to discern the difference between the giving ways…
— Robert D. Hales
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The Holy Ghost, a personage of spirit, is their minister, who has been given the power and assigned the functions of bearing record of the…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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Now, we have the Holy Ghost. Each one of us who is a member of the Church has had hands laid upon his head and…
— Marion G. Romney
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This is of monumental significance. The gift has been given - what we make of it is up to us. Unless we listen to counsel…
— F. Burton Howard
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