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- Silence is more eloquent than words.
- There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
- Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
- If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
- If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk,…
- Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it;…
- True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter,…
- I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a…
- Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
- Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose…
- Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound…
- If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data…
- Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
- It is great, and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's Creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some…
- The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like…
- Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those…
- Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will daily grow more and more right. It is at the bottom of the condition…
- There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
- What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts
- No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated,…
- Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any…
- Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question…
- We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our…
- In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol…
- Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle