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«On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger»
Author: Hu Shih
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
biological, For Better or Worse, historical, sociological, subject to
«No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.»
Author: Irving R. Kaufman
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
befalling, befalls, befell, derision, dynamics, incomprehension, lawyers, profession, subject to
«Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.»
Author: William Wirt
| About:
Curiosity,
Doubt
| Keywords:
curiosity, doubts, excited, return, seize, subject, subject to
«Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.»
Author: John Updike
| Keywords:
book review, conditioned, cut down, Evening News, holier-than-thou, holier, holy book, Last Judgment, pages, reverence, review, Second Coming, subject to, The Last Judgment, The New York, The Second Coming
«The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.»
«Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
articulation, categorically, diminishing, diminishing returns, diversity, returns, subject to, variable, variables
«Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
attempts, Be Free, liberate, subject to, wholly
«So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Politeness,
Sincerity,
Weakness
| Keywords:
anew, civilities, civility, remembering, sides, sincerity, subject to
«Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
blowing up, blown up, blows, blow out, blow over, built, certainties, damage, damaged, damages, doubt, houses, sand, sanded, sanding, subject, subjecting, subject to, wind
«The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Emotion
| Keywords:
emotions, immediately, subject, subject to
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