"Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in…
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Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful…
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Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the…
— William Merritt Chase
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The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact…
— George Washington
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— Salvador Minuchin
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Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic…
— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will…
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Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both…
— Harry S. Truman
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
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The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought:…
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