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«Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.»
Author: Archibald Cox
| About:
Achievement,
Law and lawyers,
Society
| Keywords:
centuries, disputes, enable, force of law, maximum, minimum, persistently, resolution
«The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation»
Author: Dixie Lee Ray
| About:
Growth
| Keywords:
defects, economic growth, equivalent, inflation, maximum, on the job, plus, pollution, products, runaway, runaways, zero
«The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.»
«The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.»
Author: George Steiner
(Critic, Educator, Scholar)
| About:
Journalism,
Vision
| Keywords:
configuration, configurations, hone, honed, honing, impact, journalistic, maximum, social event
«When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.»
Author: Brian Tracy
| Keywords:
abilities, abut, actin, confident, engage, maximum, positive, purposeful, stretching, systematic, using
«We're not here to leave a mark, bro. Monuments, legacies, marks - that's where we always go wrong. We're here to revel in the world, to soak in the awesomeness of it, to enjoy the ride. The world's maximum perfect as it is, beauty from horizon to horizon. Any mark any of us tries to leave - hell, it's only graffitti. Any mark anyone leaves is no better than vandalism.»
«The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.»
Author: William Booth
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
apprentice, apprentices, commencement, embodiment, exertion, fable, farthing, farthings, in return, maximum, newest, prizes, prostitute, sale, self-indulgence, tempter, The Embodiment, the Tempter, The Victim, uttermost
«The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
deteriorate, deteriorated, deteriorates, deteriorating, fifties, fifty, forties, maximum, over fifty, villainy
«The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
biography, continuity, Go Between, jolt, jolted, marries, maximum, minimum, revolutions, smoother, time and space, transitions, untouched
«The human individual lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. He energizes below his maximum, and he behaves below his optimum. . . . it is only an inveterate habit -- the habit of inferiority to our full self.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
energize, energized, energizes, energizing, inveterate, maximum, optimum
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