127.Quotes On Ability:Body:Civilization:Evil-Part 7
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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.." -Aldous Huxley-
"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.".-Barbara de Angelis-
"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.".-David M. Burns-
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.".-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.".-Frederick Douglass-
"Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.".-Karl Marx-
"There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.".-Mark Twain-
"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.".-Ambrose Bierce-
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"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.".-Calvin Coolidge-
"Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to ".-Desiderius Erasmus-
"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.".-George Santayana-
"To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.".-Karl von Bonstetten-
"Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.".-Norman Douglas-
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"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.".-Victor Hugo-
"Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.".-Alexander Herzen-
"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.".-Benjamin Disraeli-
"When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.".-Daniel Webster-
"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.".-Helen Keller-
"We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.".-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.-
"Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.".-Albert Einstein-
"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion;within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-
"The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-
"Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life;what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-
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"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?".-Bernard Mandeville-
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