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«The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
capacity, extent, neighbor, of his own, respecting, self-respecting, shortcoming, shortcomings, the self, tolerant
«To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.»
«Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| About:
Commitment,
Future
| Keywords:
extent, humanly, ordering, orderings, predictable, promises, reliable, uniquely
«Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
| About:
Freedom,
Temperament
| Keywords:
climate, extent, mood, temperament
«The Depth of your Mythology is the Extent of your Effectiveness.»
Author: John Maxwell
(Author, motivational speaker)
| Keywords:
depth, effectiveness, extent, mythologies, mythology
«Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.»
Author: Confucius
| About:
Ignorance,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
extent, ignorance, to that extent, to what extent
«The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profits»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
apply, extent, monetary, profits, restoration, The Restoration
«The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Ability,
Conscience
| Keywords:
consciousness, contains, embrace, extent, limited, space
«Taking shelter in the dead is death itself, and only taking all the risk of life to the fullest extent is living.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Death itself, extent, fullest, shelter, sheltering, The Dead
«The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Humanity,
People,
Stupidity
| Keywords:
comprehend, extent, Infinities, infinity, stupidity
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