"The high prize of life, the crowning fortune……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness."
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2,824 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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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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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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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
— Martha Beck
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I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
— Tony Benn
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Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole,…
— Jo Brand
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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are…
— Barbara Bush
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The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
— Susan Cain
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I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias.
— Dick Cheney
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In other words, they decided right from the start that there's no God, and they're setting out to try to…
— Ken Ham
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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the…
— Ralph Fiennes
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When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done…
— Ian Thorpe
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There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one's bias.
— Phyllis Rose
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