124.Quotes On Ability:Body:Civilization:Evil-Part 4

"Self-respect is the root of discipline;the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.." -Abraham J. Heschel-

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"Personal power is the ability to take action.".-Anthony Robbins-

"Our power is in our ability to decide.".-Buckminster Fuller-

"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.".-Elbert Hubbard

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"Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.".-Franklin D. Roosevelt-

"Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.".-Jean Baudrillard-

"If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.".-Les Brown-

"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.".-Ovid-

"You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.".-Alexander Pope-

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"What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.".-Arnold Palmer-

"You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body.".-Bob Guccione-

"You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.".-Deepak Chopra-

"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.".-Francis Bacon-

"The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.".-Iris Murdoch-

"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.".-Mark Twain-

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"Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the m".-Plato-

"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.".-Agnes Repplier-

"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.".-Arnold Toynbee-

"People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization;but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.".-Clark Kenneth-

"Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.".-Frank Moore Colby-

"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.".-Karen Horney-

"The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.".-Oscar Wilde-

"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.".-Winston Churchill-

"However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-

"Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the ".-Alexis de Tocqueville-

"There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-

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"Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.".-Ambrose Bierce-

"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.".-Ambrose Bierce-

"The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.".-Ambrose Bierce-

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