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The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred. — Kano Jigoro
The ten days we passed there [at Ta ChÃªng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the abjects; but the… — James Gilmour
When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In general, the bigger a mountain the older it is. The biggest mountains were built before any others, because when they were built there was… — Mikhail Lomonosov
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue… — William Booth
The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through… — Raymond Scott
On the strength of strong public support, I will have (the postal reform bills) passed within this session, — Junichiro Koizumi
The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends… — Robert Southey
One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs.… — Calvin Coolidge
Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is doing what you… — Hyrum W. Smith
I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a… — Erma Bombeck
Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost… — Wilhelm Wundt
The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape… — Paul Popenoe
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a… — Unknown Author
Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in… — Cyril Burt
Regulation has gone astray. . . . Either because they have become captives of regulated industries or captains of outmoded administrative agencies, regulators all too… — Edward Kennedy
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite.… — Richard Bach
Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one… — William Wordsworth
Firefly: Where is your husband? Mrs. Teasdale: Why, he's dead. Firefly: I'll bet he's just using that as an excuse. Mrs. Teasdale: I was with… — Groucho Marx

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