Proper Quotes

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Man's health and well-being depends upon, among many things, the proper functioning of the myriad proteins that participate in the intricate synergisms of living systems. — Stanford Moore
There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of… — Henry Augustus Rowland
Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides… — David Quammen
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten… — William Harvey
...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of… — Pope John XXII
'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.' — Benedict Joseph Labre
We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to… — Russell M. Nelson
Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have… — Mahatma Gandhi
God's providence is not in baskets lowered from the sky, but through the hands and hearts of those who love him. The lad without food… — George Arthur Buttrick
Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from loneliness and isolation.… — Uell Stanley Andersen
I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can… — Marilyn Monroe
To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they… — Jonathan Mayhew
And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and self-control are convertible terms. Prohibition,… — Felix Mendelssohn
I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with… — Karl Pearson
It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper… — John Quincy Adams
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at all, implies an… — Robert M. Pirsig
Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error. — Thomas Jefferson
Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural… — Thomas Jefferson
Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is… — Gough Whitlam
Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will… — Gough Whitlam

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