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Letter "D" » derived
«I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.»
«But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, from offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.»
«From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| About:
Certainty,
Facts,
Principles,
Truth
| Keywords:
certainty, derived, in all probability, obtained, probability
«BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion. There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being preserved on a floating lotus leaf.Ere babes were invented The girls were contended. Now man is tormented Until to buy babes he has squandered His money. And so I have pondered This thing, and thought may be'T were better that Baby The First had been eagled or condored. --Ro Amil»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Amil, antipathies, babes, bulrush, bulrushes, contended, derived, doubtless, Egyptian, floating, misshapen, Osiris, pondered, squandered, sympathies, tormented
«If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.»
«It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived»
«Arguments derived from probabilities are idle»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Arguments
| Keywords:
arguments, derived, idle, in all probability, probabilities
«Creeds, ritual, religion and different theologies are all derived from man?s yearning for the vast Reality beyond - and flow in the thousand different forms, fertilizing many fields, calming many communities, refreshing tired people and, at last, carrying people to the ocean of Bliss.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
bliss, calming, carrying, communities, creeds, derived, fertilize, fertilized, fertilizes, fertilizing, Fields, flow, ocean, refreshes, refreshing, ritual, theologies, vast, yearning, yearnings
«A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
claim, derived, free people, Laws, Laws of nature, magistrate, rights, The Gift, the laws of nature
«Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.»
Author: Vince Lombardi
(Coach)
| About:
Team work
| Keywords:
dependence, derived, oneness, team, unity
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