“ Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth. ”
- Edith Hamilton- Copy
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“ I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor. ”
- Conrad Veidt- Copy
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“ Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ”
- Franklin P. Jones- Copy
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“ Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. ”
- Paul Dickson- Copy
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“ Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves. ”
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton- Copy
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“ The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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“ Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous. ”
- Mark Caine- Copy
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“ Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ”
- Franklin P. Jones- Copy
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“ Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. ”
- Albert Edward Wiggam- Copy
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“ Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance. ”
- Paul Tournier- Copy
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“ Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. ”
- George William Russell- Copy
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“ Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. ”
- Dick Gregory- Copy
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“ We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. ”
- Warren E. Burger- Copy
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“ The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but". ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die… ”
- George McGovern- Copy
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“ It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status. ”
- Russell Baker- Copy
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“ Take away black studies, women's studies, ethnic studies, Jewish studies, labor history, Chicano studies, Native American studies: what is left is what has passed for "history" with no qualifying adjective, the story of those whose belonging we never disputed. ”
- Susanna Sturgis- Copy
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“ The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. ”
- Paul Tillich- Copy
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“ There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice… ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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