129.Quotes On Ability:Body:Civilization:Evil-Part 9

"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.." -Alfred North Whitehead-

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"There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led…".-Bergen Evans-

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.".-Douglas Adams-

"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.".-Francis Bacon

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"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.".-Henry David Thoreau-

"In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.".-Karl Marx-

"Ability is of little account without opportunity.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-

"Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen.".-Winston Churchill-

"The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.".-Ambrose Bierce-

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"Games lubricate the body and the mind.".-Benjamin Franklin-

"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body;we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.".-Charles Caleb Colton-

"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.".-Doris Lessing-

"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.".-Henry David Thoreau-

"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.".-Leonard Cohen-

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-

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"For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?".-Virginia Woolf-

"Without adventure civilization is in full decay.".-Alfred North Whitehead-

"Civilization and profits go hand in hand.".-Calvin Coolidge-

"Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.".-David Herbert Lawrence-

"One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.".-Henry James-

"Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.".-Mark Twain-

"Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.".-Vance Havner-

"The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.".-Aleister Crowley-

"In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-

"The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-

"What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-

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"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.".-Ambrose Bierce-

"Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.".-Ambrose Bierce-

"Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.".-Anne Rice-

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"People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure;but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.".-Bernard Mandeville-

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