Rarely Quotes

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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. — Anita Brookner
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else.… — Lynn Steen
Madame Curie didn't stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an… — B. C. Forbes
Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can… — John Dewey
The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather and privacy, and… — Colin Fletcher
Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the… — Mahatma Gandhi
I don't spend much time in it. I go in there for my lunch and for coffee in the afternoon. I'd rarely be in there… — Lucinda Creighton
The truth is never pure and rarely simple. — Oscar Wilde
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or… — John Kenneth Galbraith
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
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. — William Taylor
It is a rare man who can prevail in the face of comfort. Freedom is fragile and elusive, for rarely does the appreciation of it… — Terry Rossio
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. — Edna Ferber
It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your… — Ken Robinson
Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make… — Dalai Lama
I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and crowds. — Laurie Helgoe
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying… — Boris Pasternak
The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship. — Oprah Winfrey
In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy. — James Spithill
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. This may seem too stoical a position in these madly passionate… — Quentin Crisp
From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as… — Thomas Jefferson
If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you — Jim Rohn
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped… — John C. Maxwell

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