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More Endowing Quotes

This quote is filed under Endowing Quotes, one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth… — George Santayana
• From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin,… — Aberjhani
• We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault… — Lewis B. Smedes
• Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up… — Mark Steyn
• The spectacle we find in true religions has as its purpose enchantment, not entertainment. The distinction is critical. By endowing… — Neil Postman
• Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its… — Robert Bringhurst
• Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return… — Ralph Nader
• YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for… — Ambrose Bierce
• To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky,… — John Cowper Powys
• In The Earthwise Herbal, Matthew Wood has revived the richness, depth, and dignity of the herbal medicine of the old… — Rudolph Ballentine
• The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the… — Bernard Berenson
• Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst

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