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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior. — Henepola Gunaratana
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and… — Edward Everett
Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to… — Dan S Kennedy
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one… — Thomas Carlyle
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's… — Michel de Montaigne
I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence… — Michel de Montaigne
In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go… — Woody Allen
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult… — William Hazlitt
All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is… — Thomas Carlyle
I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat… — Jerome K. Jerome
Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner. — Roger Mahony
Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time,… — George Will
There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope. — Thomas a Kempis
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and… — Samuel Johnson
If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.… — Jean Baudrillard
Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world… — Simone de Beauvoir
I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him, in a peculiar… — James Madison
I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise… — Grover Cleveland
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks… — Ezra Pound
There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner. — Hosea Ballou
Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are… — Edward Hoagland
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner… — Andre Breton
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is… — Jorge Luis Borges

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