Proper Quotes

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If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern? — Confucius
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with… — Joseph Addison
All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper… — Og Mandino
Good, honest, hardheaded character is a function of the home. If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years, it… — George Amos Dorsey
His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper. — Hippolyte Taine
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication… — Heinrich Hertz
It is therefore proper to acknowledge that the first filaments of the chick preexist in the egg and have a deeper origin, exactly as [the… — Marcello Malpighi
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. — Arthur Koestler
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right… — John Dewey
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time. — Saint John Chrysostom
The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their… — Hugh Nibley
We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun… — John Conyers
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. — George Bernard Shaw
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a… — James Bryce
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will… — Ayn Rand
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to… — Ayn Rand
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. — Ayn Rand
For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. — Noam Chomsky
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to… — Charles Lindbergh
Without a commitment to science and rationality in its proper domain, there can be no solution to the problems that engulf us. Still, the Yahoos… — Stephen Jay Gould

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