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«Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.»
«If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
commits, establish, heretic, marginal, practiced, the system, worn, worn out
«Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.»
Author: H. L. Hunt
| About:
Decision
| Keywords:
decide, establish, exchange, exchanges, go to, priorities, The Exchange, willing
«If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own»
«For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bustle, bustles, bustling, definitions, dwelling, ebb, ebbed, ebbing, ebbs, enjoying, enjoyment, establish, fleeting, flow away, idler, idlers, immense, impartial, incognito, independent, intense, lend, minor, observer, passionate, prince, spirits, The Observer, throng, thronged, thronging, unseen
«A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.»
«Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.»
«And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: / Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.»
«A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Internet,
Pornography
| Keywords:
dense, denser, download, downloading, establish, mission, mission statement, organization, porn, slab, statement, workers
«Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
essential, establish, form of government, nation, please, The Nation
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