"Shall we then judge a country by the……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was…
— Michele Bachmann
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At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.
— Julie Bishop
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One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its…
— Unknown Author
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School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic…
— Robert D. Putnam
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According to the National Crime Survey administered by the Bureau of the Census and the National Institute of Justice, it…
— Gary Kleck
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The U.S. Census Bureau reports that American homes are 650 square feet larger today than they were in 1980. Unfortunately,…
— Conan O'Brien
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A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
— Anthony Hopkins
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I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn't work very well. I don't understand why, because on…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some…
— Rush Limbaugh
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For Indigenous Australians, equal rights and citizenship have not always translated into full participation in Australian society. All Indigenous Australians…
— Jackie Huggins
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See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop…
— Manuel Rivas
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In 1933-34, the Belgians conducted a census in order to issue ‘ethnic’ identity cards, which labelled every Rwandan as either…
— Philip Gourevitch
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