Their Substance Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained…
— Sun Tzu
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Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine…
— Samuel Adams
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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally…
— Giambattista Vico
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Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things…
— Dion Fortune
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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to…
— Polybius
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But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall in…
— Ramona Koval
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For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
— Alexander McQueen
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No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not think of doing…
— Carrie P Snow
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Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And…
— George Crabbe
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For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be —…
— Margaret Atwood
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Men shall have the preeminence above women, because of those advantages wherein God hath caused the one of them to excel the other, and for…
— Quran
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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what…
— Jonathan Miller
Who Wrote These Their Substance Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Their Substance Quotes as follows: