Best Whereby Proverbs
236 Whereby quotes by 198 unique authors
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What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of indefinite detention whereby human…
— Glenn Greenwald
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A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do,…
— Saint Bernard
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Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men,…
— F. Sionil Jose
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Ever since the Enlightenment, people thought that we were living in a rational universe. They thought that God was a mathematician and that the function…
— Eric Kandel
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There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests…
— John James Audubon
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Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.
— Clayton Christensen
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The first step in Occultism is the study of the invisible Worlds. These Worlds are invisible to the majority of people because of the dormancy…
— Max Heindel
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Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate…
— Alexander Grothendieck
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Speech was given to the ordinary sort or men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.
— Robert South
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They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger…
— Ethan A. Hitchcock
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Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed…
— Penelope Lively
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And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries,…
— Dudley North
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Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present…
— James Larkin
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If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one…
— Mary Antin
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A revolution, in politics, is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. The substitution of the rule of an administration for that of a…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves…
— Matthew Hale
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FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens…
— Ambrose Bierce
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And therefore is the outward beauty a true sign of the inward goodness, and in bodies this comeliness is imprinted, more and less, as it…
— Thomas Hoby
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The almighty and everywhere present power of God; whereby, as it were by his hand, he upholds and governs heaven, earth, and all creatures; so…
— Michael Pollan
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It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
— Bible
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CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo sum_ --whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set…
— John Locke
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They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly... Hence they have…
— Galileo Galilei
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