121.Quotes On Ability:Body:Civilization:Evil-Part 1

"Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.." -A. Alvarez-

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"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.".-Andrew Carnegie-

"The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.".-Bernard M. Baruch-

"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.".-Elbert Hubbard

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"To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-

"The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.".-Henry Ford-

"Being competent means the ability to control and operate the things in the environment and the environment itself.".-L. Ron Hubbard-

"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.".-Nolan Ryan-

"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.".-Zig Ziglar-

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"Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis.".-Andrea Dworkin-

"As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.".-Bhagavad Gita-

"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-

"There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.".-Douglas William Jerrold-

"The eye is the jewel of the body.".-Henry David Thoreau-

"Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.".-Lord George Byron-

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"The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.".-Oscar Wilde-

"The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.".-Virginia Woolf-

"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.".-Ambrose Bierce-

"I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine;which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.".-Captain J. G. Stedman-

"The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.".-Elbert Hubbard-

"The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.".-Henry Miller-

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.".-Oscar Wilde-

"To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social ob".-Victor Hugo-

"As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?".-Alexis de Tocqueville-

"In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-

"The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-

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"Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.".-Ambrose Bierce-

"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.".-Ambrose Bierce-

"Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.".-Ambrose Bierce-

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"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.".-Aristotle-

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