Best Portions Sayings
485 Portions quotes by 396 unique authors
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The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their…
— Gunther Blumentritt
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Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion…
— Howard Carter
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The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of…
— Arthur David Ritchie
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But since the brain, as well as the cerebellum, is composed of many parts, variously figured, it is possible, that nature, which never works in…
— Unknown Author
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Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing…
— Denis Waitley
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Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are…
— Mary Midgley
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All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they…
— Edmund Burke
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Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision,…
— John Szarkowski
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No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of…
— James Madison
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It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve…
— Bernard DeVoto
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What does a tax do? It takes either from the producer or the consumer a more or less sizable portion of the product destined in…
— Gustave de Molinari
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Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.
— Lester R. Brown
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The IPCC 'policy summaries,' written by a small group of their political operatives, frequently contradict the work of the scientists that prepare the scientific assessments.…
— Peter Friedman
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A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.
— Epicurus
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But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye…
— Thomas Young
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One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right…
— Jane Smiley
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Great truths are portions of the soul of man; Great souls are portions of eternity.
— James Russell Lowell
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Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is no portion of our time that is our time, and the rest God's; there is no portion of money that is our money,…
— Adolphe Monod
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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of…
— Aristotle
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[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and…
— George Washington
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The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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